Separation of Faith
Cheri Laser's Second Novel
(Scroll down to see winning pitch!)
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Separation of Faith has earned the Editor's Choice Award for editorial excellence from her publisher.
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"Cheri Laser continues to flex her muscles as a novelist, giving us characters we come to care about and root for."
--Bill Ervolino, Columnist with The Record and author of Some Kind of Wise Guy
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The death of a Dominican nun hijacks the lives of three families with a story of abuse, deceit, and betrayal that changes everyone left behind.
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Separation of Faith is a work of upmarket commercial fiction—a character-driven story in the style of Barbara Taylor Bradford or Rosamunde Pilcher, with a literary/commercial blend similar to that of Jodi Picoult.
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Book Summary (Winning Pitch from the 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Competition:
In the summer of 1945, as World War II is ending, nineteen-year-old Abby Ryan is studying to become a nun. On the serene grounds of the convent in Kettle Falls, Washington, she is assaulted by two male trespassers and rescued by Sinclair Mellington, a handsome army captain attending a retreat at the institution.
More than sixty years later, in 2008, Isaiah Mellington, an unemployed attorney in his fifties, receives a posthumous communication from his late father Sinclair containing instructions that send Isaiah to Kettle Falls to wrap up loose ends in the wake of Sister Abby’s death. There he discovers that the “loose ends” in question are connected to a life Abby lived outside the convent. And eight days after his arrival, Isaiah is still in Kettle Falls, with four women. One is an aging former nun who's been the keeper of Abby’s secrets. Another becomes a romantic interest for him. And two are women whose lives have been abruptly hijacked by Sister Abby’s past.
Separation of Faith is a story of intrigue, suspense, sorrow, and redemption, reminding us that knowing who we are is prelude to uncovering our destiny. As betrayal encroaches upon Isaiah as well, the twisted fabric of secrets and lies—amalgamating through a generation while short-circuiting destiny—begins to unravel. In the end, no one touched by Abby Ryan's story is spared the scourge of heartbreak. And by the time Isaiah Mellington returns to Seattle from Kettle Falls, nothing about the life he'd taken for granted when he left two weeks earlier will ever be the same again.
