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Catching Moondrops
Jessilyn Lassiter no longer has to convince people she’s not a child. Having just turned 19 in the summer of 1938, her love for Luke Talley has never been more real. And Luke is finally beginning to care for her in the way she’s always dreamed of. But their budding romance is interrupted when Tal Pritchett—a young, black doctor—comes to Calloway, stealing the heart of Jessilyn’s best friend, Gemma, and stirring up the racial prejudice that has been simmering just beneath the town’s surface. The tension starts to bubble over when Jessie’s elderly neighbor Miss Cleta becomes the first white townsperson to accept Tal’s treatment. And when a young black man is lynched, Calloway is brought to its knees once again as Jessilyn realizes that her anger can make her heart as full of hate as the klan members who have terrorized her town and her family.
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TYNDALE TO RELEASE NEW NOVEL FROM AWARD-WINNING WRITER JENNIFER ERIN VALENT
Catching Moondrops
There’s nothing in this whole world like the sight of a man swinging by his neck. Folks in my parts like to call it lynching, as if by calling it another word they can keep from feeling like murderers. For some people, time has a way of blurring the good and the bad, spitting out that thing called conscience and replacing it with a twisted sort of logic that makes right out of wrong.
Award-winning novelist Jennifer Erin Valent returns readers to the small town of Calloway, Virginia, in her latest novel, Catching Moondrops, to be released in October from Tyndale House Publishers. Catching Moondrops is the third in Valent’s series of historical romances set in the Depression-era South, following Fireflies in December—winner of the 2010 Christy Award in the First Novel category and the 2007 Christian Writers Guild’s Operation First Novel contest—and its sequel, Cottonwood Whispers.
It’s been two years since Jessilyn Lassiter last looked evil in the eye, but she knew better than to think it was gone for good. At nearly nineteen, Jessilyn is more in love with Luke Talley than ever, and he is finally beginning to care for her in the way she always dreamed he would. But their romance is interrupted when Tal Pritchett—a young black doctor—comes to Calloway, stealing the heart of Jessilyn’s best friend, Gemma, and stirring up the racial prejudice that has been simmering just beneath the surface.
The tension escalates when Miss Cleta, Jessilyn’s neighbor, becomes the first white townsperson to accept Tal’s treatment, an offense that quickly leads to violence at the hands of the revived Ku Klux Klan. As Jessilyn dreams of vengeance, she begins to realize that in order to bring true peace, she’ll have to win the battle that’s waging in her own heart first.
About the Author—Jennifer Erin Valent’s debut novel, Fireflies in December, was the 2007 winner of the Christian Writers Guild’s Operation First Novel contest and received a Christy Award in 2010. The sequel, Cottonwood Whispers, released in 2009. Jennifer lives in central Virginia, where she has worked as a nanny for over fifteen years. Visit her Web site at www.jennifervalent.com.
