Character Spotlight ~ Debbie Viguie's Cindy Preston & Jeremiah Silverman

Cindy Preston & Jeremiah Silverman

Debbie Viguie is well known for her YA Sweet Seasons fiction series. With her Psalm 23 Mysteries she turns her hand to suspense with a twist, a Rabbi and a church secretary combine forces to solve a murder! I'm looking forward to reading The Lord is My Shepherd.

Here's a look at her protagonists. Over to you, Debbie:~

Brief physical description

Cindy - long, light brown hair, green eyes, fair skin, around thirty

Jeremiah - Olive skin, black hair, dark eyes, very tall and muscular, around thirty

Actor/famous person

My husband and I love playing the “who would we cast as…” game. After much discussion, here's what we came up with:

Cindy - Maggie Lawson (she plays Juliet on Psych); her eyes aren't the right color, but she's got the right look and she's a great actress

Jeremiah - Misha Collins (he plays Castiel on Supernatural)

Strengths and weaknesses

Cindy - her faith is incredibly strong, but she is a very fearful person. She is overly obsessed with trying to be safe.

Jeremiah - he also has incredibly strong faith and an ability to spring into action when needed. He also finds himself drawn to getting involved in the mystery to help Cindy even when he feels that he shouldn't involve himself further. He runs toward danger instead of away from it.

Quirk (if any)

Cindy - fiddles with a deck of cards when she is nervous

Jeremiah - he analyses what he's going to say before he says it

Your inspiration for the character

Cindy - I worked for two years as a church secretary and that's when I came up with the idea for Cindy. While the character is not based on me, she is, in my mind, symbolic of all the smart, nice girls out there who don't have a clue what they want out of life and are afraid of what might happen if they venture beyond their comfort zones. Too many people go through life afraid to take risks and I wanted to have Cindy start out there and then evolve into someone who is really standing up for herself and going after the things she wants in life. This first book in the series begins that journey.

Jeremiah - I have been blessed to have very strong, very compassionate men in my life. Jeremiah is inspired by both my father and my husband.

Background to the story

Cindy and Jeremiah come from two different worlds. When Cindy, a church secretary, stumbles across a dead body in the church sanctuary it is Jeremiah, the Rabbi from the synagogue next door, that hears her scream and comes to her aid. The two quickly find themselves tangling with a serial killer who is replicating the events of Passion week. As they learn more about each other and are thrust more and more into danger Cindy has to decide just how far she'll trust Jeremiah, a man she barely knows, who seems to have secrets of his own.

Thanks so much, Debbie :) This series looks very intriguing!

On Monday, the spotlight shines on the first book in Melody Carlson's As Young As We Feel series so stay tuned!

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Coming soon from Abingdon Press

Here are some more covers for you to continue the discussion of covers and to see what you can look forward to later in the year!

Abingdon Press are getting some good feedback on their covers ~ what do you think?

Medical Error by Richard Mabry MD

Dr. Anna McIntyre’s life was going along just fine until someone else started living it. Her patient died because of an identity mix-up, her medical career is in jeopardy because of forged prescriptions, and her credit is in ruins. She thought things couldn’t get worse, but that was before she opened the envelope and saw a positive HIV test with her name on it.

Her allies are two men who are also competing for her affection. Dr. Nick Valentine is a cynic who carries a load of guilt. Attorney Ross Donovan is a recovering alcoholic. The deeper Anna digs to discover who’s behind the identity thefts, the higher the stakes. Finally, when her life is on the line, Anna finds that her determination to clear her name might have been a prescription for trouble.

September, 2010

When The Devil Whistles by Rick Acker

“I didn’t have a choice. I didn’t.”

That’s what Allie Whitman tells herself every night as she lies awake. Sometimes she even believes it. But mostly she knows deep down that her inability to make a hard choice has put millions of lives at risk, including her own. Now the only one who can help her is her lawyer, Connor Norman. Unfortunately, Allie’s actions have destroyed Connor’s trust in her—and may destroy much, much more.

October, 2010

I Shall Not Want by Debbie Viguie

Charity work can be murder!

It’s Thanksgiving and Joseph Tyler, one of the members of Cindy’s church, has organized a new charity that provides homeless people with rescue dogs to love and care for. But one by one, the homeless recipients are being murdered and their dogs stolen. Could an overly competitive millionaire with his prize-winning pooches and a grudge be behind the crimes? Or could it be someone much closer to Joseph who has something sinister to hide? Cindy and Jeremiah must rush to find a killer before he strikes again.

October, 2010

A Time to Love by Barbara Cameron

War correspondent Jennie King thinks she’s just a temporary guest in her grandmother’s Amish community while she recuperates from the devastating injuries sustained in a car bomb attack that changed her world. But when she meets Matthew Bontrager, the man she had a crush on as a teenager, she wonders if God has a new plan for her.

October, 2010

Long Time Coming by Vanessa Miller

Faithful Christian Deidre Clark-Morris is a professional career-minded woman with a loving husband, but no children.

Kenisha Smalls has lived in poverty all her life. She has three children by three different men and has just been diagnosed with inoperable cervical cancer. While the meeting between these two women appears accidental, it becomes their catalyst of hope. Neither woman expects the blessing that God has in store for her.

While Deidre will guide Kenisha on the path to eternal life with Jesus Christ, Kenisha will teach Deidre how to stand strong against the hard-knocks of life.

November, 2010

Coming in February/ March, 2010 from Abingdon Press

Abingdon Press has been cranking up its fiction arm and I am delighted at the variety of subject matter they are tackling with the novels they are releasing in 2010.

I've been waiting a long time to read a Ronie Kendig story and I love the sound of it and I think the protaganists in Debbie Viguie's novel sound fantastic.

How about you? Anything take your fancy?

Click on the title and author links (where available) for more and be sure to check back tomorrow for more great titles from Abigindon.


<sup>The Pastor's Wife by Jennifer AlLee

Maura Sullivan never intended to set foot in Granger, Ohio, again. But when circumstances force her to return, she must face all the disappointments she tried so hard to leave behind: a husband who ignored her, a congregation she couldn’t please, and a God who took away everything she ever loved.

Nick Shepherd thought he had put the past behind him, until the day his estranged wife walked back into town. Intending only to help Maura through her crisis of faith, Nick finds his feelings for her never died. Now, he must admit the mistakes he made, how he hurt his wife, and find a way to give and receive forgiveness.

As God works in both of their lives, Nick and Maura start to believe they can repair their broken relationship and reunite as man and wife. But Maura has one more secret to tell Nick before they can move forward. It’s what ultimately drove her to leave him three years earlier, and the one thing that can destroy the fragile trust they’ve built.

Releasing February, 2010


Walking on Broken Glass by Christa Allan

Already sloshed from one-too-many drinks at a faculty party, Leah Thornton cruises the supermarket aisles in search of something tasty to enhance her Starbucks—Kahlua, for example. Two confrontations later—one at the grocery store and the other with her friend Molly—Leah is sitting in the office of the local rehab center facing an admissions counselor who fails to understand the most basic things, like the fact that apple juice is not a suitable cocktail mixer. Rehab is no picnic, and being forced to experience and deal with the reality of her life isn’t Leah’s idea of fun. But through the battle she finds a reservoir of courage she never knew she had, and the loving arms of a God she never quite believed existed.

Releasing February, 2010




The Big 5-0h! by Sandra D Bricker

Olivia Wallace has a birthday curse . . . or so she thinks. It was a broken heart on her 16th, a car accident on her 21st, pneumonia on her 30th, and a fall down a flight of stairs on her 35th. There were Ohio blizzards on her 38th, 39th, and 40th; and six days before her 45th, she lost the love of her life to a heart attack. Numbing grief stole that birthday and a couple more to follow and, on the morning of her 48th birthday, she received the call she’d dreaded ever since losing her mom so many years ago…she was diagnosed with stage-3 ovarian cancer. The doctors didn’t hold out a lot of hope, but Liv survived and maintained her faith. Months of surgeries and chemotherapy and radiation treatments followed.

But now, as her 50th birthday creeps up the icy Ohio path toward her, her hair has grown back, her energy level is up, and she is officially cancer free. It makes her nervous. After everything she’s gone through, Liv hates the idea of driving on icy roads and returning to work as an O.R. nurse in a local Cincinnati hospital.

Her best friend Hallie knows just the thing to break Liv out of the winter doldrums, while providing a safe haven of warmth, sunshine, and a time to regroup: a holiday in the Florida sunshine!

Releasing February, 2010

Dead Reckoning by Ronie Kendig

Underwater archeologist Shiloh Blake is consumed with passion for the water and inflamed at the injustices of life, blaming her secret agent father for her mother's death. When her first large-scale dig traps her in the middle of an international nuclear arms clash, she flees for her life and is followed by an unknown man. Who is he? How is he always one step ahead? Reece Jaxon is a former Navy SEAL, who now serves his country as a spy. His mission is threatened by the beguiling Shiloh Blake as he hunts down the sources to a nuclear dead drop in the Arabian Sea. The only way to end this nightmare and prevent a nuclear meltdown is for Shiloh to join forces with Reece. Will Shiloh violate her vow to never become a spy like her father? Will she reconcile with her father? Will her trust issues destroy her chance for love? And will she allow God to help her through this ordeal?

Releasing March, 2010



The Lord is My Shepherd by Debbie Viguie

Cindy’s church is getting ready to celebrate Easter, and Jeremiah’s Temple is preparing for Passover when Cindy literally stumbles over the body of an unknown man lying dead in the sanctuary. The church was locked, and a bloody cross necklace on the floor seems to be the only clue. The killer is likely a member of the congregation, but there are hints that similar deaths have happened in the past. Are Cindy and Jeremiah dealing with a serial killer? They have to unravel the clues before Easter Sunday arrives and more people die.

Cindy and Jeremiah come from two different worlds, even though they work right next door to each other. Cindy is a strong Christian who lives a normal but somewhat dull life, working as a church secretary. Jeremiah is a Reformed rabbi with a mysterious past full of danger and excitement. But one eventful Easter/Passover week, the two find themselves working together to solve a murder and stop a serial killer from striking again. Solving the mystery should put an end to their alliance, but the church secretary and the rabbi quickly find themselves enmeshed in another mystery. Soon the two form a friendly alliance and friendship, exploring personal history and faith and growing closer with each passing adventure. Despite their differences Cindy and Jeremiah find a lot of common ground.
Releasing March, 2010</sup>