Forever, Karen Kingsbury
Forever, Karen Kingsbury
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Forever

Author: Karen Kingsbury

Narrator: Sandra Burr

Abridged: 4 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 03/01/2007

Categories: Fiction, Religious


Synopsis

A Dream Come True Katy Hart is thrilled about her future with Hollywood’s Dayne Matthews. But as she plans a wedding and looks for a house on the shores of Lake Monroe, she receives tragic news. Now everything about the future they planned together is hanging in the brink. Only a miracle can help them find their way through. A Public Struggle Now Katy and the Baxters must travel to Los Angeles and sort through their options. While paparazzi open fire on the Baxter family, Luke Baxter helps field requests from the media. At the same time, he must wrestle with feelings that have troubled him for nearly a year. A Family’s Undying Love Ultimately, the Baxter family must pull together one last time in an act of service, a labor of love to help Katy and Dayne find what they’ve always longed for - a chance at forever.

About Karen Kingsbury

American author, Karen Kingsbury, is the country's bestselling, inspirational storyteller. She has over twenty-five million copies of her books in print. She knew she wanted to be a writer as soon as ten years old, falling for the Dr. Seuss at the age of 5. She was born in Fairfax, Virginia, but given her dad's computer programming job, the family of seven moved quite often. When Karen was 10, they moved to the San Fernando Valley of Southern California. Just thirty minutes from the beach, she spent hours sitting on the sand, reading her books, and dreaming of being a novelist.

Karen's journalism teacher placed her on the newspaper staff at Pierce College, and told her to never stop writing. She graduated from California State University at Northridge with a degree in journalism. She immediately began a job as a sports writer for the Los Angeles Times. She wrote mostly high school sports articles in the beginning, but later wrote for college and national professional sports. It was during this time that she met her future husband, Don. He was a handsome young man with an extraordinary love of Jesus Christ. Karen tells the story that he came to pick her up for their first date, with Bible in hand. It became what she considered annoying after three months, so she confronted him about it. Don left that day, but God would bring them back together. She unknowingly came to understand Don's thoughts about life as a Christian. They married and lived their married life as God would see fit. When she found out she was pregnant after six months of marriage, she did not know how she
would take care of a baby with such a busy work schedule. Don said that God would show them the way to write at home. Later, she submitted an article to People Magazine, and they thought the article would make a great book. Karen submitted a book proposal, a bidding war resulted, and she ended up with a book deal that paid her a little more than she already made in one whole year of work. She has been home writing books ever since.

Karen wrote four books in the crime genre, then decided to switch to books that glorified God. Her first novel in the new genre was ......Where Yesterday Lives. It was published in 1997, the same year their third child was born. Ever since her first novel, she wrote life-changing fiction. She said God puts a story on her heart and in her mind. Many of her books are under development with Hallmark Films and as major movies.

Karen and Don now live in Tennessee. She is an adjunct professor of writing at Liberty University. In 2001, they adopted three boys from Haiti, very quickly doubling their family. They are now empty nesters, living near their five adult children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Tamara on January 23, 2016

FOREVER . . . finally! I loved the characters, I loved the drama, and I loved the storyline. But, I didn’t love the long drawn out series. Of course, we all knew how the series would end, but it truly became a quest to get to the end. One of the issues I had with this series is the constant rehashin......more

Goodreads review by Stefanie on August 05, 2018

Forever, the final book in Karen Kingsbury’s Firstborn series, was a wonderful ending to a fantastic storyline. The Firstborn Series as a whole was great, telling the story of love, hope, second chances, and the power of family. Forever was easily my favorite book in the series, the emotions penned i......more

Goodreads review by Thera on July 31, 2023

Ik ben deze serie helaas te langdradig gaan vinden en vond het grote leesplezier van de Baxters hier niet terug helaas. Ook eindigt het niet zoals je zou verwachten en is de bruiloft en het samen zijn van Dayne en Katy alsnog uitgesteld naar boek 1 van de volgende serie. Super irritant en voor mij g......more

Goodreads review by Reagan on February 03, 2017

so this book is pretty amazing. when i first read the summary i thought something had happened to Katy's mom. boy, was i wrong. it was really unexpected to see the surprise this book held--Dayne almost killed by a car crash. then on top of it, Luke's attitude. good thing John had found Elizabeth's 1......more

Goodreads review by Hannah Beth on January 14, 2024

What a solid ending to the Firstborn series. This book brought tears to my eyes so many times. I can't wait to see what is in store for Bailey Flanigan and the Baxter family in the next series.......more