THYME BOOKSTORE â—½ TIPS
FISH OUT OF WATER will always be a special book to me. I completed this novel in close to six months, which is record timing. But the thing I remember the most was that each night I went into my office to write, it was like a date with God. I always pray before I start writing—or at least, I try to remember to pray—and God would meet me there. I felt His presence, and the words flowed freely. Perhaps because I used a personal experience as a plot point. There were many tears and laughs, too.
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FISH OUT OF WATER is the third novel in “The Garden Key Tales series. Each book can be read as a stand-alone novel, but reading them in order is a lot more fun.
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It’s hard to describe the story without giving away spoilers. But, here goes.
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Can life be this beautiful for a quirky-cool, former Goth chick? Writer Maddy McManus certainly counts her blessings--daily.
She lives with her gorgeous, loving, and loyal rock star husband, Peter, in a beautifully restored historic mini-mansion in Pasadena, California. And her fiction writing career is taking off. After years of battling fear and insecurity, Maddy’s life finally seems to fit her, and she feels established.
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Then a major-league curveball crashes in and unhinges Maddy’s perfect life plan. But this new adventure leads Maddy into a deeper level of love — and heartbreak — than she has ever known.
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While joining her husband on his band’s tour in Berlin, Germany, an elderly Italian woman in an ancient church speaks a phrase to Maddy that haunts her in her broken world.
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Can she make sense of this woman’s words and receive the healing she needs from her suffocating grief?
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In a divinely-timed moment, Peter’s wild past rears its head by way of a mysterious letter. Can Maddy make peace with the repercussions of her husband’s history?
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FISH OUT OF WATER is the tale of purpose, prayer, and palette-pleasing pizza in Germany.