KC Berg
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ISBN
978-1500461911
Date
August, 2014
Price
13.95 print, 4.99 ebook
From
the publisher: Beth loves Sam so much that it hurts, but he is a
prisoner to his past. Listening to her broken heart, Beth packs up her
belongings and flees Eagle River in the middle of the night, hoping to leave
all of the pain and the heartache behind. Five years later, a mysterious
stranger—and a phone call from a deceased friend—convince her that Sam is in
danger and she needs to go back. With her heart in her hands, she returns to
Sam and the Thunder Ridge Ranch, but will her love be strong enough to save
both of them before time runs out? "Fallen Angel" is a spiritual
romance that examines the theory that souls are bound together across time, and
that they travel together through a succession of lives, helping and guiding each
other on their way home.
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About the Author
K.C. Berg became a published author at the age of fourteen when her first full-length article appeared in The Hoards Dairyman, a national magazine. She graduated cum laude from Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, where she studied creative writing and received the Mary. E. Morton scholarship for a short-story titled "Bonds." K.C. berg also writes and produces dramatic plays. Two of her plays placed in a national competition. The first one, Adamantine, was performed in New York City in February of 1996, and Clean Linen received a reading in Myrtle Beach, SC, in May 2014. Berg resides in Northeast Wisconsin, which is the setting for her third novel, Fallen Angel, and is active with and supports both the community theater and the animal shelter in her home town. In the Light of the Passing: Book 1, was a finalist in the USABookNews.com competition; both In the Light of the Passing and its sequel, Brinda's Promise: Book 2, were awarded the Eric Hoffer Book Award for Commercial Fiction in 2007.
My review:
Desperation
hope learning enough, doing enough good to earn our way to heaven...
Sam
and Beth met at an inopportune time in their lives; Beth, in her late forties,
is six years older than Sam who never got over his former wife and their
shotgun wedding and loss of their baby decades earlier. Ten years of choosing
to stay with Cindy who simply leaves him without, in his mind, any warning,
tells us what kind of person he is. He didn’t handle it well, broke down and
moved up north to run a supper club. People keep leaving Sam until he is in
need of saving.
Beth
is given a mission by a mysterious stranger, one she feels ill-equipped to
handle until she’s taught the theory of old souls who need the help of others
on their journey.
In
many ways the story is more of a celestial battle between sure and surer,
between right and wrong, however you want to interpret that, between who can
reap more souls while the other wreaks more havoc. Mysterious people, Peter and
Mark, appear to Beth to plead for Sam’s soul, and Beth is unwittingly drawn
into this fight between the two. Both use whoever and whatever is at their
disposal – loved ones, signs, creatures, miracles, rumors and innuendo, sins
even, to reach for what they want.
I
was given a pdf proof copy to read for review. I honestly think there could be
have quite a lot less narration to get the story told. The story is told mostly
from the point of view of Sam and Beth with some other conversations and
characters dialog thrown in.
Drawing
on the popular supper club, bars, Friday fish fries, Berg’s Wisconsin is as
familiar as home, wherever it is…’cept we drink Miller here, or at least
Spotted Cow. Buds are fer them across the border. Those who feel curious about
someone’s idea of reincarnation will enjoy this gentle story of—dare I say
it?—middle-aged people who step out of their ruts.
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