A warm welcome to author Shell Taylor joining us today here @ Love Bytes visiting our blog for her Creative Minds Blog tour on new release “Ressurrecting Hope”.
Welcome Shell 🙂
TITLE: Resurrecting Hope
SERIES: Home for Hope #2
AUTHOR: Shell Taylor
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
COVER ARTIST: L.C. Chase
LENGTH: 65,800 words
RELEASE DATE: December 25, 2015
BLURB: Adam Lancaster can’t imagine how his life could possibly get any better. He’s on the cusp of moving in with his boyfriend, Elijah Langley. Their charge, Kollin Haverty, finally has a loving, stable home environment, and Home for Hope is up and running, keeping over fifteen LGBT youth off the streets at night. One phone call from his birth mother, Jessica Lancaster, is all it takes to unravel Adam’s carefully constructed new life.
Informing Adam his grandfather has died, Jessica expresses remorse for abandoning Adam to the state and begs him for a chance to be part of his life again. Jessica’s true colors eventually shine through her façade, and Adam is devastated all over again when he discovers she is only using him to get her hands on the valuable inheritance his grandfather left him. Jessica’s betrayal forces Adam so far inside his own hell, not even Elijah or Kollin can keep him from abandoning all of his responsibilities and running away. Adam will have to dig deep to find the strength to confront his birth parents, heal once and for all, and earn back his place with his new family.
Hey, everyone! Thanks to Love Bytes for having me. I wanted to share a little background info on my newest release, Resurrecting Hope, which is book two of the Home for Hope series. If you’ve read Redeeming Hope (& if you haven’t, be sure to enter the giveaway for a chance to win a copy!) you know Adam Lancaster overcame a difficult childhood to become nothing short of amazeballs. He started a community center for at-risk LGBT youth and gives so much time and effort to seeing the kids there feel accepted and prepared for the real world. He has the patience of a saint and rarely thinks of himself.
So it’s not a huge surprise that he never makes a point to share the less-than-positive doings of his past with his partner, Elijah Langley. Aside from the nagging reminder that Elijah is the man he wants to spend his life with and therefore probably deserves to know, Adam probably feels almost selfish bringing up those details and trampling over their current Happy Ever After. That is, until a blast from his past sends him spiraling out of control emotionally. I’ve shared before how easy this story was to write, and while that’s true, making Adam’s decline believable and interesting was probably my biggest struggle.
But my favorite part about this book is seeing how much Elijah has grown from Redeeming Hope. When Adam falls apart, Elijah really steps up to hold his family together. He’s determined to save Adam from himself and pull him back to life. This isn’t something that comes naturally to Elijah like it does Adam, but he loves Adam enough to step out of his comfort zone and be the patient man Adam needs.
I hope you enjoy the book. Be sure to read Redeeming Hope first if you haven’t already! And enter the giveaway for a chance to win a copy of Redeeming Hope! And please come find me! I love talking to new people 🙂 I hang out mostly on Facebook, but if you follow my Tumblr or Twitter, you’re likely to see a lot of mooshy boy-love, Once Upon a Time flailings, and Marvel flailings.
“Hey, Chloe,” Elijah said as he waltzed into the foyer. He carried two trays. “I brought you a sundae.”
“Oh. Thank you, Elijah,” Chloe said, her wide eyes darting between Adam and Jessica. “How thoughtful.”
“I try every now and then,” he said as he placed both trays on her desk, wriggled one of the cups out for her, and bent down to pick up Adam’s forgotten water bottle. “Did you drop this?” Elijah slid the bottle into Adam’s hand and allowed his fingers to linger against Adam’s. The grin he offered was solely reserved for Adam. Elijah hadn’t noticed Adam’s mother yet. His back had been to her since he walked in the door, but with that small smile, Elijah unknowingly bolstered Adam’s confidence. Adam smiled back.
“Thank you. Maybe Chloe can call someone out here to collect those. There’s someone you need to meet.” Elijah swiveled around to see Adam’s birth mother sitting in the corner. He closed the distance between them and held out his hand with all the confidence of a multimillionaire CEO.
“Hi, there. I’m Elijah Langley. It’s a pleasure to meet you.”
Terror written all over her face, Jessica stared at him for a moment and then looked toward Adam.
“This is Jessica… Lancaster.” Adam spoke quietly, but he knew Elijah heard because his entire body tensed. He could imagine the look on Elijah’s face, given the way Jessica quickly averted her eyes.
“Oh.” Elijah dropped his hand and returned to Adam’s side.
Dreamspinner Press (Paperback)
Shell Taylor is a full-time mother of three exuberant and loving kiddos and one fur baby, a tiny but fierce Yorkie-poo named Rocco. As a Christian who practices love, grace, and humility rather than hatred and judgement, she tries her best to instill these same virtues in her rowdy kids. She just recently learned how to crochet to start bombarding new mothers with matching hats and booties. She is a huge Marvel fan and because of the superhero-plastered tees paired with jeans and Chucks has been told when helping out in her son’s classroom that she looks more like the students than a parent. Her favorite way to procrastinate is to binge watch entire seasons on Netflix. Best of all, she’s been married ten years to a man who’s turned out to be everything she never knew she needed.
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Winner’s Prize: $10 Amazon GC
2nd Winner’s Prize: E-copy of Redeeming Hope
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It sounds very touching!
This story sounds really good and I checked out the blurb on the first book. Both books now have a place on my To-read list. I love seeing the growth in characters facing life altering situations as a story or series develops, so I think I will enjoy these books. Congratulations on the new release.