The Baxters Take Four, Karen Kingsbury
The Baxters Take Four, Karen Kingsbury
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Synopsis

Are fairytale endings only in the movies?
Keith Ellison and Dayne Matthews have finally inked a deal to have the nation’s top young actor star in their current film. But at the same time, the actor takes a very public fall that threatens his reputation among his fan base. Meanwhile, healing happens for Andi Ellison in her relationship with God, her family, and those she loves, but is it too late? The new producers find they must truly act as missionaries in order to help save the film, their families, and the young movie star. Breakthroughs take place that the public will never know about, as the possibility of saving the world through film is finally a very real possibility.Part of New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury's beloved Baxter series that begins with Redemption, Remember, Return, and Rejoice, now streaming onlineInspirational women's fiction with plenty of heart and a thread of sweet romance

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 cocktailsatfive on July 31, 2010

There will always be a special place in my heart for Karen Kingsbury's novels. Particularly her older books. Though I still read everything she releases, I have noticed her new novels now carry more of a saccharine tone to them. And her characters, particularly Bailey Flannigan, often feel a little......more

Goodreads review by Melissa (Semi-hiatus for Work) on June 11, 2018

I so wanted to like this book more than I did. That said, in a series this long, it's likely that some of the books just won't resonate as much as others do. I know she's just setting things up to start her new Bailey series, but dragging the Cody/Bailey relationship out and rehashing basically the......more

Goodreads review by Reagan on March 31, 2017

wow the times like these where I reflect back on my life, even when I only finish a book. this book ends the "above the line" book series and it has me emotional? as many of you may know, there are only 6 more Baxter/Flanigan family books left in print at the moment. Karen has seen the need, and fil......more

Goodreads review by Hannah on September 19, 2020

It was a good conclusion to the series. Although, this series was a little slower than Kingsbury’s others.......more

Goodreads review by ABookAddictHere on September 11, 2022

What a joyful and heart wrenching book! You dive into Brandon’s beginning to his faith and the heartbreak of Bailey and Cody for different reasons but also the grace of God......more