Celebrate Lit Blog Tour: Carmen's Journey of Courage by Susan K. Beatty

Book: Carmen’s Journey of Courage

Author: Susan K Beatty

Genre: Christian Women’s Fiction

Release date: September 14, 2021

Truly the odd woman out, Army weapons expert Carmen belongs to a family where PhDs are almost a second surname.

Oh, and she’s also persona non grata since that one little incident back in her teens.  The one that her Tia Graviella still hasn’t forgiven her for. The one her parents and siblings will never let her forget.

A trip to Mexico City, complete with a bit of groveling at Tia Graviella’s feet, might just be what it takes to gain forgiveness and a fresh start with her family. Not only that, her tia is ailing, and someone needs to check up on her.  Carmen can solve two problems with one would-do-anything-to-avoid-it trip.

Something is off, however, and as Carmen investigates, she begins to wonder if there’s more to her aunt’s troubles than ill health.

When Carmen sets her course on making things right, will it repair more than the wreckage from a youthful miscalculation?

 

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I have enjoyed reading books by Susan K. Beatty and was excited that a new novel was coming out. I jumped at the opportunity to read Carmen's Courage by Susan K. Beatty recently. 

Carmen comes from a family where everyone goes to college and has lucrative careers. Carmen choose not to go to College, instead she joined the Army and then got married and had children. She has always been the "Black Sheep" of the family, ever since she was a teenager after an incident with her Aunt, and now she is even more so. Carmen begins planning a trip to Mexico City as her Aunt is in bad health and no one else in the family can go. Carmen feels that she now has the opportunity to ask for forgiveness from her Aunt for the incident when she was younger. Upon Arriving in Mexico City, she realizes that her Tia might be being taken advantage of. She begins to investigate some of her Aunt's personal household matters and makes quite the discovery. Will she gain forgiveness from her Aunt and her family? What exactly does Carmen uncover in her investigation of her Aunt's household Matters? 

I will say that it took me a bit to get into the story, but once I did I truly enjoyed the book. Carmen has always felt left out of family stuff because of an incident when she was a teenager. She feels left out as an adult because her family are all more successful then her. She finally gets enough courage to head to Mexico City to be with her Aunt for a time, as her Aunt is very sick. I really like how she really takes things to heart and sees more then her Aunt being sick and does what she can to figure things out. Her Aunt's response to Carmen being there for her and the incident that left them at odds, is amazing! Carmen's Journey of Courage is a book about Family, Forgiveness, and Faith. WONDERFUL BOOK! 

“Courage: The intersection of faith and Grit”

Susan K. Beatty is passionate about finding courage through faith and grit, particularly through the trials of breast cancer. Her daughter is a metastatic breast cancer “thriver” and has been an inspiration for her writing. Susan retired from a full-time job in 2017 and is now pursuing a novel-writing career. Her first novel, “Faces of Courage,” is in revision. Susan is the author of “An Introduction to Home Education” (AKA “California Homeschool Manual”), was the assistant director of the SoCal Christian Writers’ Conference and is the president of her local ACFW-OC Chapter. She is a professional writer/journalist. Susan is proof you can begin a fiction writing career after age seventy.

 

More from Susan

Have you ever known in your heart you needed to ask someone to forgive you, but the thought scared you so much you were convinced they would reject you? So scared you couldn’t bring yourself to ask?

Sometimes we are more fearful of man than God, conveniently ignoring the responsibility to be right with others and to live in peace. It’s hard to live in peace when that thing, that whatever it was we need to apologize for, is lying like a lump of toxic waste in our hearts.

In Carmen’s Journey of Courage, Carmen ignored her need to ask for forgiveness for years. Well, she didn’t really ignore it, she just kept burying it every time she thought of it. Which was often.

It took an outside force to get her positioned in such a way that she had to face the situation.

Carmen is the odd woman out in her family. Every one of her siblings possesses enough educational degrees to wallpaper a room. But not Carmen. Her two older sisters’ treatment of her pushed Carmen in the opposite direction and toward a desire to find her own way on her own terms. Instead of college, Carmen enlisted and excelled in the army.

As God sometimes does, He uses the exact person Carmen would prefer to avoid—her oldest sister—to get her to Mexico City and their great aunt. Circumstances are not what she expects. She needs to face more than her tía and solve a mystery with the aid of her army training.

It’s a journey of courage.

We all face tough decisions. I wrote Carmen’s Journey of Courage to inspire bravery when life is hard.

Find your courage at the intersection of faith and grit.

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To celebrate her tour, Susan is giving away the grand prize package of a $25 Amazon gift card and copy of the book!!

Be sure to comment on the blog stops for nine extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter.

https://promosimple.com/ps/11dcb/carmen-s-journey-of-courage-celebration-tour-giveaway

Celebrate Lit Blog Tour: Carmen's Journey of Courage by Susan K. Beatty

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