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Lenora Worth's release this month is part of the Homecoming Heroes miniseries. However, she's also working on another great miniseries called CHAIM. If you haven't read the first book in the series, Secret Agent Minister, it is still available as an ebook through eHarlequin.com. Or you can hunt for the print version on Amazon or other retailers.
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This is one of those good writer stories that usually happens to someone else. But this gift was given to me, and here’s how it happened.
I
was at a local writer’s conference where Merline Lovelace was the speaker. I have long admired Merline, not only as a writer but as someone who is always willing to sit and talk about writing with me. She was doing a workshop where the audience plays “what if”. It started
with several people throwing out suggestions and Merline fueling those suggestions with comments of her own. It ended with “What if a man wearing super-hero boxer shorts was standing in a hotel room with a dead body in the bathtub?”
Everyone was laughing and excited when Merline asked who wanted to take this idea and write it. Then she looked at me and said “Let’s give it to Lenora. Inspirationals can have murder, can’t they?”
I
clapped my hands and said “Yes, but we’d probably have to change the boxer shorts to a superhero tee-shirt.”
And that is how my idea for CHAIM came about. For the last couple of years I’ve been writing a series of books about Christians who are secret agents. They go anywhere in the world where Christians are in trouble and go in as a special unit to save those in need or stop the bad guys. CHAIM
means “life” in Hebrew, but in my books it stands for Christians for Amnesty, Intervention, and Missions.
So far, I’ve written three books for the series and I hope to write two more. The first one was “Secret Agent Minister” and it came out in 2007. It was about a mild-mannered minister named Devon Malone who had once been a member of CHAIM. When his church secretary (who’s in love with him) finds him standing in his room and a dead body in the bathtub, things are off and running. She also finds out he had this whole other life and she has to work through that discovery and fall for him all over again. The second book, due out in January 2009, is “Heart of the Night” and involves Eli Trudeau, a man we meet in the first book and Devon’s sister, Gena. And the third one is “Code of Honor” and involves Brice Whelan, an Irishman, and his college friend, Selena. Brice has to rescue her from rebels in Argentina and bring her home to Atlanta, but trouble follows them.
I
hope to write more of my CHAIM books. And just think, I would have had the pleasure of meeting Devon, Eli, and Brice if I hadn’t been at that conference on that day. Merline and the other participants of that workshop handed me a gift. And I consider it a gift from Heaven that I
have truly enjoyed turning into suspenseful, fun-to-write stories. Maybe the real story is that we need to always be open to the possibilities of God’s hand in our lives. Because if we listen and act on our instincts, He will always send us gifts we can take and apply in our
lives. And that is the greatest story of all.
Lenora Worth :)
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