About the Book

Book: Shadowed Doubt

Author: Kathleen J. Robison

Genre: Christian Romantic Suspense

Release Date: June 13, 2023

Is street smart enough to save a life and protect a family?

Finally recovering after the abduction of her mother by a human trafficking ring and the mysterious death of her father years ago, Lacey Thompson wants to live again. But things aren’t panning out. Exclusion from Fashion Design School leaves Lacey nursing rejection when a young stranger shows up in Bay Town. He’s brash but beautiful, and Lacey senses she shouldn’t get involved, but she can’t help it.

Wade Bodine Gardner is heir to Gardner Hotel Enterprises. As a long-lost family member discovered on the streets of New Orleans, Wade is living a second chance. Life is good, especially when he meets Lacey Thompson. But his past comes back to haunt him. The man who raised him is released from jail…the man who killed his mother. Beau Bodine wants a piece of the action and will stop at nothing to get Wade’s inheritance. Stalking Lacey is his first plan of action. How far will Beau go?

Instead of fighting their battles together, Lacey and Wade battle each other. Will Lacey draw on what got her through before? Can Wade learn to trust God and Lacey? It’s a race against time to save those whom he loves.Click here to get your copy!

About the Author

Kathleen is an Okinawan-American. Born in Okinawa, raised in California, Florida, Mississippi, and Singapore. Her travels lend themselves to the settings in her books, and her large family provides fun fodder for her characters. She and her Pastor husband have eight adult children. Seven are married, blessing them with sixteen grandchildren, and more on the way! Her ethnically diverse family of 33 plus personalities presents many opportunities to write about God’s amazing love amid trials, tragedies, and blessings. He is the one true inspiration and hope for us all.

More from Kathleen

Writing Shadowed Doubt took a different turn than my other books. I began writing a story about Lacey, Melanie Thompson’s young daughter. But since I write Romantic Suspense, she had to be old enough to be romanced! My husband says that would be age thirty for our youngest daughter, and he’s only half kidding.

But if you read the prequel, Revived Hope, and Book One, Shattered Guilt, you have a complete sketch of this delightful young girl. You don’t have to read those to enjoy Shadowed Doubt, but I hope you will. I think you’ll enjoy the small-town community of characters. Still, like all the Bay Town Series books, I aspire to make them stand-alone, and this book is no different. So you’ll meet Lacey as a young adult, ready to tackle the world.

I have three grown daughters (and five married sons), so watching them grow in their faith, and navigate college, relationships, and marriage, helped me to write Shadowed Doubt and Lacey’s story. Except for the fictional trauma in this story, I portrayed real-life heartache and doubts about what young women experience as they grow up in their faith in our almighty, sovereign God. Even those raised in a loving Christian home struggle with life, especially in today’s dark world. The important thing is to never give up. The Bible calls it perseverance. Trusting in our risen Savior for all things, even things out of our reach, until He gives a clear no.

Doubting is a big part of life. Wouldn’t you agree? We question ourselves, our family, friends and especially every life choices. But as a Christian, doubting God is the most difficult to admit. Without voicing those words out loud, I sometimes doubt that my prayers will be answered in the affirmative. In this book, Lacey definitely experienced this. She often felt like a yo-yo. It’s a lesson her love interest, Wade, also shared. His difficulty? He grew up in a very broken home and on the streets.

Relying on a solid foundation, Lacey trusted in God’s sovereignty and wanted His will above her desires. Something she also prayed for Wade, but sometimes she prayed, not really believing herself worthy of God’s best. But that’s the enemy at work. With spiritual mentors, Lacey came back around, knowing with all her mind and heart that she was worthy because of Jesus’ sacrifice. That she had no doubt. I pray that when doubts arise in your heart, you’ll go straight to God’s Word and be reminded of His height, depth, width and breadth of His love for you. It’s what Shadowed Doubt is all about.

Interview with Kathleen

Share something your readers wouldn’t know about you.

I’m the daughter of a WWII survivor. This an interesting and sobering thought, the details I’ve only recently discovered. My mother was not a soldier. She was a fifteen-year-old Okinawan girl in 1945. She told my sisters and me many stories about the Battle of Okinawa, the bloodiest battle of the Pacific, and I’ve begun writing a fiction book about her harrowing escapades on the island. She relayed them to us with candid humor, but I’ve since discovered those times were anything but funny. It turns out that half the civilians in Okinawa were killed or wounded, and only two-thirds of the population survived. The city I was born in, Naha, Okinawa, was 90% destroyed nine years before my birth. When I factor in my mother’s Christian rebirth some forty years later, I’m astounded at God’s hands on my life, and I am so humbly grateful. I almost wasn’t here!

What has been your favorite part of the publishing journey? 

Finding a new outlet for God’s purpose at this stage of my life. Since becoming a mother, I’ve never doubted that purpose, and now as well as a Grandmother. But I never dreamed the Lord would take me in this direction beginning in my 60s (tipping 70 now). As a writer, I have the opportunity to share what God has done in my life to give hope and peace of God through entertaining stories. My life has been rich and packed with many family and friends, and I never thought more new and wonderful people would be added. God’s amazing grace shines through all our life trials and blessings. What a good and excellent God we serve. 

Does one of the main characters hold a special place in your heart? If so, why?

I never thought about this, yet I have a deep-felt fondness for Lacey. This question made me realize she was my first main character. When I began writing the Bay Town books ten years ago, it all started with Lacey. I crafted a young teen girl, much like my youngest daughter. That first girl really was my daughter in looks, actions, and personality. She read a draft and recognized herself! But as I wrote, the girl took on the traits of my other two daughters as well. And as I learned about crafting a story, the book soon morphed into Lacey’s mother’s journey and trial. Although Lacey played a significant role in Shattered Guilt, Shadowed Doubt is her adult story. She’s almost all grown up, so I have a fond affection for her as I do all my grown daughters.

Wade also holds my heart. The romantic interest smacks of my husband as a young man. Again, I didn’t realize this, but I really like Wade…because I really love my husband! I always say the boy of my passions turned into the man of my dreams. We were two stupid young people that God got a hold of and turned upside down. I know, He had a plan, but it’s nothing we ever could have dreamed or imagined. 

Any current or upcoming projects you’d like to tell us about?

Almost too many to mention! Book Four in the Bay Town Series is now with my editor, and I’m working on the ending of Book Five. I have a Christmas Book and another romantic suspense unrelated to the series that I would love to finish this year. God-willing.

I’m excited about a couple of non-fiction projects I must begin. An agent with Focus on the Family is interested in a proposal I had on the topic of Parenting. With eight grown children and nineteen grandchildren, I proposed Raising Kids: Five Things that Worked for Us. When I mentioned “no guarantees,” the agent was amused and asked me to send it! Now I have to write it.

Also, many reader friends have asked me about getting started in writing, and I have some concrete things that helped me. So, why not: “My Writing Journey: Five Things that Worked for Me.” Original huh? Nothing unique, but I took the advice of many successful authors. Some new writers don’t want to follow that path. Most often it’s fear, discomfort, even pride, but the tried-and-true works, and with God’s leading, we can overcome the obstacles that keep us from “doing necessary work.”

Blog Stops

Artistic Nobody, July 26 (Author Interview)

Debbie’s Dusty Deliberations, July 26

Book Reviews From an Avid Reader, July 27

Because I said so — and other adventures in Parenting, July 28

Locks, Hooks and Books, July 29

Truth and Grace Homeschool Academy, July 30

Texas Book-aholic, July 31

The Book Club Network, August 1

Guild Master, August 2 (Author Interview)

Happily Managing a Household of Boys, August 3

Blogging With Carol, August 4

Betti Mace, August 5

For Him and My Family, August 6

Holly’s Book Corner, August 7

Stories By Gina, August 8 (Author Interview)

Books Less Travelled, August 8

Giveaway

To celebrate her tour, Kathleen is giving away the grand prize package of a $25 Amazon gift card and copy of the book!!

Be sure to comment on the blog stops for nine extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter.

https://promosimple.com/ps/26d55/shadowed-doubt-celebration-tour-giveaway