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Monica P. Carter is an author and journalist. She graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi and has been a reporter and an editor. Her award-winning weekly newspaper column for northwest Louisiana's largest daily, The Times in Shreveport, runs Wednesdays and covers a variety of topics. Monica P. Carter is the author of the fast-paced As If Nothing Happened, available now, and the forthcoming Sacrifice the One, due out in March 2004. She also is a freelance commercial writer and a sought-after speaker. Find out more about the author, her tour and publishing at www.monicapcarter.com. E-mail her at mpcarter7@aol.com. |
Sacrifice the One
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Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher:
Urban Books (April 1, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1893196941
ISBN-13: 978-1893196940
Sacrifice the One is a faith-themed family drama set against the backdrop of rejection, rebellion and redemption. When an adored and treasured woman risks and loses her life to have the child she always dreamed of, a wave of repercussions follows. Rose is the treasured wife of Robert Armstrong. Rose, always headstrong, knows having a baby could be risky after having already miscarried. But she wants nothing more than to hold in her arms the little girl she has always wanted. She bargains with God, if he’ll just give her a baby, she won’t ask for anything else. She gets the baby, but at the stake of her own life. Robert could leave or take becoming a father. All he’s ever wanted was to spend his life with Rose. Everything he does is because of her, for she is the woman who wiped away so many years of loneliness and became the center of his world. When he loses her as a result of childbirth, he can’t take it. He wants to be angry at someone; he wants to be angry with his beloved Rose. But it’s too much weight to carry being angry with the woman he loved more than his own life, so he turns to the next person: the child of that union, Seta.
Furious with God for taking his wife and for never seeming to
stand by him, and angry with this child for being the cause of his wife’s death,
Robert renounces them both. He doesn’t need God and he doesn’t need this child.
He curses God and dumps the baby on Rose’s parents. Seta is devastated when she
finds out her father has remarried and has new stepchildren that he allows to
call him “Daddy.” She rebels, deciding that since being good didn’t get her
anywhere, being bad would definitely get her the attention she deserves - and be
more fun. She wants nothing to do with the values her churchgoing grandmother
raised her with, as she wonders why her prayers to God for a father’s love have
gone unanswered for so long. So Seta goes down a destructive path, all on her
search to fill the void. Her and her grandmother, Barbara, fight as Seta’s
rebellion tests the family’s foundation of faith.
Sacrifice the One
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ISBN: 0971843619
Format: Paperback, 288pp
Pub. Date: March 2004
Publisher: RootSky Publishing
Sacrifice the One is the poignant coming-of-age tale of one young woman who struggles with the rejection of her father who blames her for his wife's death. She does all she can to gain his acceptance and love, but seeing it isn't coming, seeks love wherever she can find it from anyone who happens to be well, a man.
Her craving for something so simple sends her down a dangerous path of self destruction that not even a praying grandmother can protect her from. Will she find the love she wants before it's too late?
As
if Nothing Happened
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Two great covers, one compelling book!
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0971843600
Publisher: RootSky Publishing
Pub. Date: August 2002
As If Nothing Happened is the story of best friends who let secrets threaten their bond. For one, it's personal demons that threaten her sanity. For another, it's realizing her marriage is vulnerable after all. And for the last of these three girlfriends, it's the craving for a long-gone love. Each struggles to keep her pain from the women who have been her best friends since college. So they pretend. It takes a tragic turn of events for them to realize just how far apart they have become. Can they regain their sisterhood?
As If Nothing Happened gets raves for storylineAs If Nothing Happened, the debut novel by newspaper columnist Monica P. Carter, is the crisply told story of best friends who let secrets come between them. The story will take you through a range of emotions – from laughter to tears and back again. Read what others are saying about it: "As If Nothing Happened is confidently recommended as an attention engaging, emotionally powerful and thoughtfully entertaining tale of learning to recognize and empathize." —Midwest Book Review "Believable characters, facing believable situations." —Robyn Jackson, features editor, Hattiesburg American "Carter weaves a colorful tapestry about friendships and the ties that bind them. The storyline is engaging and a quick read." —APOOO Book Club, Amazon.com "Carter did a good job with
the development of the characters and "Monica Carter displays a
crisp, realistic dialogue that flows throughout the story. Indeed, the
conversations are as familiar and comfortable as if one were sitting down
and listening to members of a family gathering." |
RootSky Publishing
Contact: (318) 617-3267
P.O. Box 52482
Shreveport, LA 71115
info@rootskypublishing.com
www.rootskypublishing.com
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