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What is playing? Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls

When I find someone musically that I have not listened to before and they click with me, I get all sorts of excited. My husband is a YouTube addict. Certifiable, card-carrying, addict. We had a conversation a week or so ago.

"Listen, I found a video by a band that I think you will really like. Pull up Endeverafter."

Rolling my eyes. "Okay, when I get a minute." I rolled my eyes because my husband had Enya on repeat this past weekend. Did I mention all I heard was Enya ALL NIGHT LONG? So, I don't put much stock in the hubby's musical recommendations after nine hours of Enya.

Three days ago, this happens.

"Look, I have YouTube pulled up. Just walk over and check them out."

"For the love of...fine. I will check them out."

Five minutes later, I was on iTunes buying their stuff. Next Best Thing is what the song just switched off to. And yes, I apologized to the hubby.


Character Bios

Jared Davenport is in his mid to late twenties. A biology major, he set out to make the world a better place. The main caregiver for his elderly grandmother, he calls her every night to remind her to lock her door, take her meds and double check to make sure the stove is off. At around six feet two inches with a face that lights up with his smile, this young black man could have taken the world by storm...if he had not died.

Now faced with the task of being a Messenger (a spirit who exists outside of a body with a message to deliver or a job to do, depending on the interpretation), he receives his assignments and must complete those to go on to the Heaven that he knows awaits him.

Rebecca McLeod is Jared's first assignment. Sarcastic with a mouth of a sailor, she has the look of the typical girl next door, long brown hair, green eyes but has an anger complex that weighs more than her car. Abandoned by her mother when she was three, Rebecca was raised by her father who not only was her biggest support, he was her best friend...until he died. Now two years after her father's death, she walks into her home office and finds a strange man sitting in a chair claiming she can help him get home. With her frustration coupled with anger over her loss, her abandonment issues and her resentment of God for taking her father, Rebecca makes Jared's journey precarious, to say the least.

Christian Bianchi is a 31-year-old endocrinologist living in North Carolina for the past 15 years since his Italian family moved down here for business reasons. He finished high school and went to college there, choosing to stay even after his family moved back to Manhattan. Not one to settle down in a relationship, Christian has a long line of women he has gone through until an event happens that shakes him to his core...his little sister died. Christian pours himself into taking care of his patients, hoping to save them as he failed his sister. At six feet four inches with black hair falling to his shoulders and eyes the color of the Caribbean, Christian could very well prove to be a bigger obstacle in Jared's journey home than Rebecca.

These are the three that Redemption focuses on. My next post will have a portion of the manuscript. Thank you for sharing with me. Until next time.