![]() Home is meant to be a safe place. But what happens when you are homeless? Can you find safety? Author Laurel Houck shares a compelling read in SEARCHING FOR HOME. It's the tale of one homeless woman who battles addiction and the demons in her life. It's a gritty read that will have you questioning your own life but also contains the important message that GOD is here for everyone. SEARCHING FOR HOME is available now in ebook and print. All proceeds from sales will go to a homeless organization. So be sure to grab a copy and share this story with friends and family. Blurb: Life on the streets is hard but it’s deadly when a young woman battles addiction… Where is home…when you’re homeless? Selah gets through life using lies, sex, and faux concern as a veneer to forget the past and to achieve personal gain. She barely tolerates her job bringing medicine to the streets. Will is the only man who has refused her body. She resents that his God stands between them. Will pastors the homeless no matter who or where they are. He conceals a past that is anything but pure. His biggest temptation is his love for Selah. But he refuses to compromise his faith. When Selah’s deceased husband appears to her—more dangerous in death than in life—the careful control she has used to cope slips away. Evil takes control as she falls far from the life she had carefully planned. And then farther still. Selah must make a radical choice as an epic spiritual battle rages. Because she has finally found a love worth protecting at all costs. Is there redemption at the intersection of brutal reality and saving grace? Searching For Home is a gripping and too-real tale of love, addiction, and redemption; written by the one woman, Laurel Houck, who has championed salvation for hundreds of people. This amazing tale will have you brushing tears from your cheeks and will show you a hidden world our eyes have skipped over as we travel through big cities and small. Fans of realistic fiction like Ruby (Between the Cracks, #1) by P.D. Workman and Broke(n) by S.T. Jones will love Searching for Home. All proceeds from the sale of this book will benefit homeless outreach, Light In My City, www.lightinmycity.org EXCERPT: FOUR: Her hand reached for the solace being offered, shivering in remembrance of the feeling this would produce. Just this one time, a magic potion to ease her uncertainty, her burdens, her fears. A way to help herself to be whole. Much more real than any nebulous whispers. Need whispered in her ear. “God is eternal; catch up with him later.” “Give it to me.” Selah took what Shai proffered. She held the sharp, glistening point of the needle to her vein. Her thumb hovered over the plunger. Her entire life she’d been alone. No one protected her from her father. No one cared as everything, including her sanity, disintegrated. She’d always had to stand alone. And do what she had to do for herself. “Where are you when I need you,” she whispered to the heavens. “I don’t want to be alone anymore.” A loud babble of indistinguishable voices swirled around her. Nothing made sense. A drop of liquid appeared at the end of the needle as her hand, seemingly of its own accord pressed it closer to her flesh. And then, deep inside an unknown place in her soul, she experienced a clear and steady voice. “I will always meet you where you are, who you are, in the place of your deepest need. Come to me.” BUY LINKS: |