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Chautona Havig

Chautona Havig

Using story to connect YOU to the Master Storyteller

A Bird Died

 Agency Files, The
• Induction
• Justified Means
• Mismatched
• Effective Immediately
• A Forgotten Truth
• Hashtag Rogue

Aggie Series
• Ready or Not
• For Keeps
• Here We Come
• Ante Up!
• Aggie’s Complete Collection Box set

Allerednic: A Regency Cinderella Tale in Reverse–sort of

 Annals of Wynnewood
• Shadows and Secrets
• Cloaked in Secrets
• Beneath the Cloak
• Annals of Wynnewood Box Set

Argosy Junction
(Beneath the Cloak)

Bookstrings
• Spines & Leaves (introductory novella)
• Hart of Noel (Christmas “noella”)
• Twice Sold Tales
• Clock Tower Bound

 Brides of New Cheltenham, The
• Ghosted at the Altar

Charming Miss Dashwood (in A Very Austen Romance)

 Christmas Fiction
• 12 Dates of Christmas
• 31 Kisses
• Advent
• All Is Bright: CLC 4 (Print Only)
• Carol and the Belles
• Christmas on Breakers Point
• Christmas Party in a Box 1 (box set)
• Christmas Party in a Box 2 (box set)
• Christmas Party in a Box 3 (box set)
• Christmas Party in a Box 4 (box set)
• Christmas Stalkings
• Greetings from Next Door
• Hearts Aglow: CLC 5 (Print Only)
• (Hart of Noel)
• Merri’s Christmas Mission
• Moore’s Code: Santa’s Secret Revealed
• Sand & Mistletoe
• Silenced Knight: A Hartfield Mysteries “Noella”
• Snow-Crossed Letters
• Tangoed in Tinsel
• Tarnished Silver
• Bells of New Cheltenham, The
• Ghosts of New Cheltenham, The
• Hearts of New Cheltenham, The
• Lights of New Cheltenham, The
• Stars of New Cheltenham, The
• Matchmakers of Holly Circle, The
• (Nutcracker’s Suite, The)
• Second Noel, The
• Silenced Knight
• Stars of New Cheltenham, The
• Wrong about Mr. Wright
•

(Cloaked in Secrets)
Confessions of a De-cluttering Junkie
Corner Booth
Deepest Roots of the Heart
Discovering Hope

 Ever After Mysteries, The
• Last Gasp, The
• Nutcracker’s Suite, The
• Ransomed Grete, A

 Hartfield Mysteries, The
• Manuscript for Murder
• Crime of Fashion
• Two O’clock Slump
• Front Window
• (Silenced Knight)

 HearthLand
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Volume 4
• Volume 5
• Volume 6
• HearthLand Collection 1
• HearthLand Collection 2

 Independence Islands Series
• (Christmas on Breakers Point)
• Dual Power of Convenience
• Bookers on the Rocks
• Flipping Hearts
• Finding a Memory
• Book, Chapter, & Vows

Jack: a lot of hullabaloo on the prairie
Legends of the Vengeance: The First Adventure

 Journey of Dreams
• Prairie
• Highlands
• Seaside (not published)
• Marshlands (not published)
• Desert (not published)

 Marriages of Conviction
• Blessing Bentley
• Tempting Tait
• Charming Chloe (not published)

 Meddlin’ Madeline Mysteries
• Sweet on You
• Such a Tease
• Fine Print
• Dead Letter
• Byrd’s-Eye View
• Looks Could Kill (not published)

(Moore’s Code)
New Year’s Revolutions
Not a Word

 Not-So-Fairy Tales, The
• Princess Paisley
• Everard
• Beauty of Verdonia (not published)

Oh, Gracious!
Operation Posthaste

 Past Forward
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Volume 4
• Volume 5
• Volume 6

(Penelope’s Pursuit)
Premeditated Serendipity
Random Acts of Shyness
(Shadows & Secrets)
Shattering Secrets

 Sight Unseen Series, The
• None So Blind
• Will Not See
• Ties That Blind
• Sight Unseen Collection

Something Borrowed, Someone Blue
Speak Now

 The Suamalie Islands
• Under the Mistletoe
• The Title Wave
• Trust Fall

Trouble with Nancy, The
Thirty Days Hath…

 Vintage Wren, The
• January
• February
• March
• April

(Verity’s Valley)

Westward Home & Hearts
• Penelope’s Pursuit
• Verity’s Valley (not published)
• Felicity’s Foibles (not published)

You Are on the Air
• Dial W for Wrangler (not published)
• Dial I for Identity

Volition

 

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The Because Fiction Podcast

The Because Fiction Podcast
The Because Fiction Podcast

Taking the pulse of Christian fiction

A Chat with Dante Lupinetti
byChautona Havig

The last place you want to be when the electricity gives out is the desert–especially in summer. Listen in as I chat with Dante Lupinetti about his book, Desert’s Edge and how it tackles a trek across the desert and up into the mountains… with a couple hundred people in tow!

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Growing up in the area that this book takes place in, I can’t WAIT to read it. EEEP! It’s sitting right there on the shelf, taunting me. Must. Finish. My. Own. Book.

Desert’s Edge by Dante Lupinetti

The grid is down. Phoenix has 72 hours. And the only way out is through 200 miles of desert.

Former Army Ranger Jack Cross hasn’t spoken to his father in three years. Hasn’t been inside a church. Hasn’t let himself believe in much of anything since nineteen firefighters trusted him and didn’t come home.

But his father has been broadcasting on emergency radio every night since the EMP hit.

Come north. There’s room. Come anyway.

Jack has 210 terrified strangers, one missionary doctor running from her own ghosts, and a wooden cross he can’t bring himself to throw away.

The desert doesn’t care about any of that.

Neither does the clock.

When an electromagnetic pulse kills every electronic device in Phoenix during a 118-degree heat wave, Jack faces an impossible choice — stay in a city of 1.7 million people as the infrastructure collapses, or lead more than two hundred terrified strangers two hundred miles north through the Sonoran Desert to Camp Kadesh — his father’s off-grid Christian retreat in the Prescott mountains.

The father he hasn’t spoken to in three years. The refuge the old man spent five years building while everyone called him a fool.

Joining him is Dr. Faith Morrison — missionary physician, Haiti veteran, and a woman whose faith has been ground down by years of watching children die of treatable diseases while her prayers went unanswered. Together they’ll lead a caravan of families, elderly couples, frightened children, and one man hoarding water while others go thirsty — through crashed planes, contaminated water sources, rattlesnake strikes, and triple-digit heat that turns every mile into a question about whether God is still in any of this.

Jack’s father has been broadcasting on emergency radio every night. Come north. There’s room. Come anyway.

The wooden cross is still in Jack’s pocket.

Some things you can’t throw away. Some debts can’t be balanced. And some refuges are built by people who believed — long before anyone else did — that the day would come when you’d need somewhere to run.

Desert’s Edge: A Jack Cross Novel is a post-apocalyptic survival thriller about what it costs to keep walking when everything in you says stop — and what grace looks like when you finally arrive.

Especially for readers of Kyla Stone, Jamie Lee Grey, and William Forstchen.

Series: A Jack Cross Novel, Book 1 Genre: Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller / Christian Fiction Content: Clean read. No profanity. No explicit content.

Learn more on WEBSITE and follow on GoodReads and BookBub.

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