Award-winning author Marie Wells Coutu writes novels about broken people being restored. After a career writing for newspapers, magazines, governments, and nonprofits, she returned to her first love—writing fiction—at the age of fifty-five. Her debut novel, For Such a Moment, won the Books of Hope contest. Thirsting for More, the second book in the Mended Vessels series, was a finalist in the Selah Awards and a semi-finalist in the Royal Palm Literary Awards. Since retiring from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, she and her husband have divided their time between Florida and Iowa, where they can be closer to their two children and four grandchildren.
For Such a Moment (Mended Vessels Book 1)
Revealing her secret could save lives … or change hers forever.
Ellen Neilson enjoys her comfortable life as the wife of an American CEO. Born in Guatemala but living in America since the age of ten, she has kept aspects of her childhood secret.
When her long-lost cousin Manuel shows up as one of her husband’s managers, Ellen fears that her past will be revealed and her marriage jeopardized.
Then Manual informs her that illegal pesticides have poisoned the water at the company’s banana plantation in Guatemala. People are dying, but she doesn’t know who’s to blame for the cover-up.
Thirsting for More (Mended Vessels series Book 2)
The whole city of Charleston seems to be watching, waiting for Northern transplant and new director of tourism, Victoria Russo, to either work a miracle or to stumble and fall.
The change of geography is a chance for multi-divorced Victoria to start a new life. But she hadn't expected the cold reception and the deception she's experiencing. Hoping to gain acceptance, she tackles the renovation of a historic home but soon falls back into her old ways.
Will Victoria find a way to change her world or will she return to the place where her past failures lurk around every turn?
The Secret Heart (Mended Vessels series Book 3)
After a whirlwind romance, beautiful Shawna Moore marries Hunter Wilson, the governor of Tennessee. Now, she wonders if the governor ever loved her or only hoped to avoid a scandal.
In this modern re-imagining of the biblical story of Bathsheba and King David, an investigative reporter is asking questions—the wedding took place only six weeks following the death of Shawna’s first husband in Iraq. If he discovers the truth about Shawna’s baby, Hunter’s chances for reelection, as well as Shawna’s reputation, will be ruined.
But keeping their secret is destroying their marriage.
Will Hunter’s choice mean the end of his political career or his family?
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