Book Recommendation - Silent Shadows

One of my go-to authors for romantic suspense novels is Natalie Walters. She is currently releasing into the world book 3 of her Harbored Secrets series, which brings the series to a close. Fans of the series will be glad to be back in the small town of Walton, GA and will get to see some familiar faces. Fans of romantic suspense who think this one looks fabulous and haven't read the others yet, no worries - other than a couple of minor spots, you won't be missing any information. This one is fine to read on its own!This had all the fine qualities I've come to expect from Ms. Walters, including great characters, twists and turns, some serious suspense, a swoony romance, a solid faith thread, and of course, Marvel movie references (don't worry - you won't be lost if you haven't seen those either). This book follows Pecca Gallegos, a nurse at Home for Heroes and Captain Colton Crawford, who has been discharged from the army due to a diagnosis of PMD (which I'd never heard of prior to this book). There's a good bit about overcoming obstacles and looking past people's handicaps.
As part of the launch team for this book, I had the pleasure of being able to ask the author some questions and here's how she responded:

1. Did you have a favorite character in this book? Who and why? Gosh, this is such a hard question because I have been waiting to write this book for a while and dreaming of the characters. If I had to absolutely choose it’d probably be Pecca. And now I’m second-guessing myself and thinking, Colton. Okay, I’ll stick with Pecca. I love her because she’s faced some adversity in her life, loves to see the best in everyone, has made some mistakes in her life that she’s learned from, and she’s feisty!! 2. Who was your favorite in the series? Now this is really not fair!! I can’t choose. I love each of them for different reasons and to pick one out of them all…I just can’t. Sorry! 3. Where did you get Pecca's name from (I love the explanation of its meaning!) I was a member of MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) in El Paso, Texas about twenty years ago and had a friend named Pecca. She explained how she got it and I fell in love with the story behind it and for some reason never forgot. Pecca is named after her and the explanation is how it happened.  4. PMD (the disorder Colton has) is not something I've heard of before. How did you decide to use that and what type of research did that entail? PMD is something my family became intimately aware of when my daughter began having tremors in her arm. After numerous appointments with specialists and every test in the world, they were throwing every possible explanation at us and one was Psychogenic Movement Disorder (PMD), which can happen when the body experiences extreme trauma. The doctors eventually ruled this out for my daughter but the idea that our body would respond in such a dramatic and debilitating manner stuck with me. There’s not a lot of information out there about movement disorders but they are crippling to the person experiencing them, I wanted to write this story to share the struggle. 5. Did anything in the story change or surprise you as you were writing? I had begun dreaming about this story while I was writing my second book so I had a lot of the story line ready (in my head) but I’d say the new secondary characters who kept showing up in scenes were a delightful surprise. 6. What was your inspiration for the story line? Colton’s medical condition. Experiencing my daughter’s struggle as her body failed her was heart-breaking for a mom but for her…it was devastating. I wanted this story to represent how God can use our setbacks (whatever they might be) to bring us right where we need to be and that it might be better than we could’ve ever hoped for. 7. What do you hope readers will glean from this book? I feel like this story has a couple of great messages. I hope readers finish this book believing that their pasts do not define them and that our setbacks can be beautiful and promising if we trust them to the Lord. 8. What's coming next and when? Can you tell us a little bit about it? Oh, I am SO excited about what’s coming next!! I have the privilege of writing another 3-book series for Revell about a private agency based in Washington, D.C. The Strategic Neutralization and Protection Agency ensures America that what they don’t know, won’t hurt them. This series has a great team of specialists that I think readers will enjoy getting to know and the suspense will be on a more national and global scale, which I think is going to be a lot of fun!!

For more information, here are some good links:
Natalie Walters' website: www.nataliewalterswriter.com
Natalie Walters' Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Natalie-Walters-Writer-147854518601519/
Silent Shadows Pintrest page: https://www.pinterest.com/nakeliwalters/silent-shadows-harbored-secrets-book-3/?fbclid=IwAR21eZi5edCISeU_59HvH3XD3XUHiny8xbuofcLJoWNljcoEvpKcoow_83Q
My full review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2865298234?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1

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