YESTERDAY’S TOMORROW
March 2011 – OakTara Publishing
Winner of the 2011 INSPY Award for Romance!
Vietnam 1967
Independent, career-driven journalist Kristin Taylor wants two things: to honor her father’s memory by becoming an award-winning overseas correspondent and to keep tabs on her only brother, Teddy, who signed up for the war against their mother’s wishes. Brilliant photographer Luke Maddox, silent and brooding, exudes mystery. Kristin is convinced he’s hiding something.
Willing to risk it all for what they believe in, Kristin and Luke engage in their own tumultuous battle until, in an unexpected twist, they’re forced to work together. Ambushed by love, they must decide whether or not to set aside their own private agendas for the hope of tomorrow that has captured their hearts.
Read an Excerpt from Yesterday’s Tomorrow.
What People are Saying about Yesterday’s Tomorrow:
“This compelling love story set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War transported me through recent history. Cathy West’s debut novel is beautifully crafted and thoroughly engaging!”
––Deborah Raney, author of the Clayburn Novels and Almost Forever
“In her thrilling breakout novel, YESTERDAY’S TOMORROW, Catherine West has all-at-once crafted a wonderful story of magnetic cross-appeal for romance lovers, for historical fiction lovers, and for fans of stories of international intrigue spiced around a military setting! From riveting tension starting in the prologue, and through the eyes of Kristin Taylor, an independent journalist covering of the Vietnam War, while fighting her reluctant attraction for the ruggedly handsome, Oxford-educated war-photographer Luke Maddox, YESTERDAY’S TOMORROW is filled with action, emotion and splendid imagery which captivates the reader from the get-go. As an ex-naval officer, I am grateful that Catherine chose the Vietnam War as the exciting backdrop for this novel. In doing so, she has done a great service to hundreds of thousands of veterans who have shamefully been forgotten over the years, and has admirably brought attention to their sacrifice. I love Catherine’s easy-to-follow writing style, am proud to heartily endorse YESTERDAY’S TOMORROW, and to be counted as a fan of Catherine West.”
Don Brown, Author of Zondervan’s NAVY JUSTICE SERIES
“Vietnam. The word evokes a myriad of emotions, depending a lot on the
hearer’s age, knowledge, and experience. I for one remember the Vietnam War
era well, having bid farewell to my then twenty-year-old military husband as
he deployed for a year to that faraway, dangerous land, leaving me at home
to care for two babies in diapers.
Author Catherine West has exquisitely captured the feel of that time and place
in the pages of her amazing debut novel, Yesterday’s Tomorrow. This is a
book that will speak to the very depths of your heart, whether you have any
personal recollection of that tumultuous time or not. Get ready for an
exciting adventure and a heart-pounding ride as you dive into this
page-turning story. No doubt this will be the first of many excellent
offerings from this talented new author.”
Kathi Macias — award-winning author of more than 30 books, including the popular
Extreme Devotion series from New Hope Publishers.
“A beautifully told story, crisp and accurate in its detail, filled with emotion and deftly handled by a writer who understands the hope of prayers asked and the beauty of prayers answered, Yesterday’s Tomorrow is a story to savor.” Lisa Wingate, national bestselling author of Larkspur Cove and Dandelion Summer.
“With crackling tension, vivid scenery, and characters who come alive on the pages, Catherine West has created a story you won’t soon forget.”
Jenness Walker
Author of Double Take and Bliss
“Heartwrenching! Powerful! In Yesterday’s Tomorrow, Catherine West spans seas and generations to report on the Perfect Love Who will never let go.
Don’t miss this poignant debut novel.”
Patti Lacy
Author of The Rhythm of Secrets
“With grace and authenticity, West takes on the difficult setting of Vietnam and shows how even the most painful history can bring a future of beauty and redemption.”
Meredith Efken, author of LUCKY BABY
“Catherine West’s Yesterday’s Tomorrow conveys the bloodstained misery of war without gratuitous violence but with heart-wrenchingly real images that carry the reader breathlessly from scene to scene. Tucked inside and between and around war-time Vietnam with its pungent odors, its lush landscape, its heated humidity, its lost peoples, is a moving love story—both human and heavenly; a story of redemption, of finding Place when the known world is upheaved into the unknown. In and around these vivid images of war, two achingly sad and lonely characters reach out to each other, to God, to friends, and to family, in their struggle to find Home, Love, and Forgiveness.
A beautifully crafted love story with poignantly flawed characters who give this novel a full-to-bursting heart.”
Kathryn Magendie
Author of Tender Graces, Secret Graces, Sweetie
Publishing Editor, Rose & Thorn Journal
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Coming in 2012 from OakTara –
Hidden in the Heart
After losing her mother to cancer and suffering a miscarriage soon after, Claire Ferguson numbs the pain with alcohol and pills, and wonders if her own life is worth living.
Adopted at birth, Claire is convinced she has some unknown genetic flaw that may have been the cause of her miscarriage. She must find a way to deal with the guilt she harbors. But exoneration will come with a price.
With her marriage in trouble and her father refusing to answer any questions about her adoption, Claire begins the search for her birth mother. For the first time in her life, she really wants to know where she came from.
It never occurs to her that the woman who gave her life may not want to be found.