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Shades of Blue

By: Karen Kingsbury
Narrated by: Roxanne Hernandez
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes an emotional story of forgiveness and healing. In between a checkered past and a fairytale future, three people must find a way forward.

Brad Cutler is a 28-year-old rising star at his New York ad agency, about to marry Laura James, the girl of his dreams. Anyone would agree he has it all: a great career, a beautiful and loving fiancée, and a fairy tale life ahead of him—until memories of his high school girlfriend, Emma, begin to torment him.

Lost innocence and one very difficult choice flood his conscience, and he is no longer sure what the future will bring except for this: he must find his old love and make amends.

Friends since childhood, Brad and Emma became a couple in high school—before their relationship was forever altered by a single decision. Haunted by the past and confused about the future, Brad turns to God seeking forgiveness and redemption for the choice he and Emma made long ago.

Brad, Emma, and Laura must work through the repercussions of a decision made as teenagers that continues to affect each one of them before any of them can look toward a new future.

  • Contemporary Christian fiction
  • Full-length standalone novel
  • Also by Karen Kingsbury: Between Sundays, Beyond Tuesday Morning, and Unlocked
©2009 Karen Kingsbury (P)2010 Zondervan

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I'll be a Spoiler for your Benefit

I gave this book one star because I can't give it none or negative stars. It is right-to-life propaganda. No where in the description of this novel does it indicate the entire storyline is about two (poorly developed) characters struggling with the decision they made to terminate a pregnancy 10 years earlier, both of whom are apparently totally paralyzed by their past and unable to accept the basic tenant of their proclaimed faith: God forgives. Not only could the story have been told in about 30 minutes, it will be offensive to anyone who is not a diehard right-to-lifer. The description of the book is deceptive. I want my credit back.

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Painful

Don't waste your credit! I love Karen Kingsbury but this book was 10 hours of whining!

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shallow and boring

This book had me praying for it to end. I don't know how it got four stars.

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