| The Homeland Heroes Series A four-part series of Christian novels written mainly for women, falling under the genre of contemporary relational drama, focusing on the friendship of two women who meet in the army during Operation Desert Shield, and set throughout the first nine months of 1996 in a neighborhood inside the heart of Portland Oregon, a neighborhood its residents have affectionately named Kimberley Square. My prayer is that the very finger of God would touch your hearts as you read these stories. |
| Book One: Wounded Healer Published by: Zondervan Release date: July 1, 2005 ISBN: 0-310-26394-8 |
| From the back cover . . . Relentless fear. Persevering faith. In the end, there can be only one. Surrounded by the oppressive terrain, weather, and tension of Operations Desert Shield and Storm, soldiers Erin Grayson and Christina McIntyre shared a special bond. But when an ugly secret from Chris’s past shattered their close friendship, they went their separate ways without even a good-bye. Chris has spent her entire life running from the past, hiding her deepest secrets from those who care for her most. And now, five years after the war, tragedy has once again stolen her hope for a new life. She’s ready to end it all. It’s a good day . . . to die. Overcoming her own anger and doubt, Erin rushes to Chris’s Colorado cabin. When Chris’s fear of God and Erin’s faith in Him collide, they are involved in a different kind of war that only one of them can win. As Chris wrestles with grief, fear, and ghosts from the past, Erin fights to pull her from the brink of self-destruction. She will not lose Chris again. Chris’s life is at stake . . . as well as her soul. |
| Book Two: Warrior's Heart Published by: Zondervan Release date: October 1, 2005 ISBN: 0-310-26395-6 |
| From the back cover . . . Once Chris fought for her country. Now she’s fighting for her faith. And she’s about to fight for her life. This is no mere storm. It’s a deluge of catastrophic proportions. Swollen by record rains and a ten- inch snowmelt, the Willamette River is hammering Portland, Oregon, with the flood of the century. In Chris McIntyre’s heart, a different kind of flood—a rising torrent of emotions—threatens to sweep her away from the community of Kimberly Square. Her newfound faith keeps her from running. But how can she stay? Her push-the-limits personality may have made her a perfect soldier, but it sets her apart from the people at her church. And it sets her at odds with Scott Mathis, the husband of her closest friend, Erin. Fearing for Erin’s safety, Scott resents his wife’s high-risk friendship with Chris. But when Scott and Chris are forced together to help Kimberly Square residents ride out the storm, a different, equally lethal danger descends on them. Death or redemption rest in the hands of one person—a woman with a warrior’s heart. |
| Book Three: Valiant Hope Published by: Zondervan Release date: May 1, 2006 ISBN: 0-310-26396-4 |
| From the back cover . . . Chris saves a child from her abusive father, but then must face her own past, when no one was there to save her. Nine-year-old Alaina Walker is being abused. Christina McIntyre is sure of it. Eight and a half months pregnant, Erin Mathis is in no position to prevent Chris from confronting Alaina’s father. Despite Erin’s concerns, Chris finds herself in the Walker’s living room, face to face with Alaina’s father. The moment quickly escalates into chaos. Chris subdues the man long enough for the police to arrive, but in the renewed chaos following their arrival, Chris is handcuffed and nearly arrested—until a paramedic sees through her behavior to the underlying cause of her panic. He helps her calm down, then gently persuades her to talk about memories she has long kept buried. Little by little, as their relationship builds, Chris shares more and more with this handsome new friend. But dredging up vile secrets from her past causes nightmares to return, and each new relived horror brings her closer to the inevitable: a long overdue confrontation with her own father. A father she swore she would never see again. A father she swore she would never forgive. She has struggled with forgiveness since the first moment of her faith, but now she must choose. Is it even possible for her to forgive her dad? If she can’t forgive him, how can she still cherish her new and fragile faith? |
| Book Four: Standing Strong Published by: Zondervan Release date: November 1, 2007 ISBN: 0-310-27256-4 |
| From the back cover . . . One of the teens pointed an assault rifle at Chris. “Wanna die?” the driver shouted. “Stand there and die.” Kimberley Street, Portland, Oregon. The summer of 1996. Light-years away from anywhere Chris McIntyre ever dreamed she would live. Friends share this home with her, friends who have become her new family, the only real family she has ever known. Kimberley Street is home, in the truest sense of the word. But it’s going to take a hero’s heart to keep it safe in the middle of a gang war. When the Kimberley Street community is caught between two rival gangs battling for territory, it’s a war far uglier than anything Chris or her warrior comrades ever saw in Desert Storm. She’ll need all her wits about her to protect the people and place she loves. But love itself can also be distracting and dangerous in its own way. It was God who gave Chris her life back and freed her from her past. Now is she willing to give up everything to serve the Lord—even if it means saying no to Jason? And can God protect the ones she loves in a world where a child can kill without mercy? |
| Order anywhere books are sold, including at Amazon.com, Christianbook.com, at Zondervan.com, or from me at autographed books. |
| © 2006 Donna A. Fleisher |
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| John 14:27 Peace I leave you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. |
| Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths. |
| Matthew 6:14-15 For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. |
| I Corinthians 16:13 Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong. |
