READER'S ROCK LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE VOL 2 ISSUE 4 NOVEMBER 2014 Vol. 1 Issue 7 January 2014 | Page 76

Claiming Peace By: Jo Huddleston I really enjoyed Claiming Peace. This is the first one I have read of the series of Caney Creek Series. I need to go read the other two. The story of the Callaway family. Callie who has a medical issue and there is no cure. Callie knows she doesn’t have long to live. She has peace can she help her family to find peace that she will be dying soon? The story show how a family can come together through a time of hardship and pull together thinking of others no matter what is going on in their own lives. Loved the book. Need tissues for this one. 5 star Jo Huddleston's recently released novel, Claiming Peace, is book 3 in the Caney Creek Series. Here's what some have to say about Claiming Peace: "In Claiming Peace, Jo Huddleston paints a vivid picture of small-town life and burgeoning Southern romance using a palette of love, sadness, loss, and triumph. With masterful brush strokes, she creates a striking, colorful portrait of characters and events that will linger in both the mind and heart long after the last page is turned. I highly recommend this latest entry in the Caney Creek series." JASON BRANNON, author of The Maze "Jo Huddleston's Claiming Peace is as refreshing as a tall glass of southern sweet tea shared with friends on the front porch swing. You're going to love this poignant story of family, romance and unconditional love." Book 1 in the Caney Creek Series is That Summer and book 2 in the series is Beyond the Past. Jo's fiction presents gritty reality in storytelling. Her more than 200 articles and short stories have appeared in over fifty different Christian and general publications, including Guideposts, Decision, and The Upper Room. Jo is a contributing writer to Christian Devotions Ministries, www.ChristianDevotions.us. Jo earned a B.A. degree from Lincoln Memorial University (TN) and a M.Ed. degree from Mississippi State University. She holds professional membership in American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW) and is a member of the Literary Hall of Fame at Lincoln Memorial University. Visit Jo at her website/blog: http://www.johuddleston.com/p/welcome.html. that was painted and painted over many times. A lifetime of memories in each layer of Mental illness is very hard to deal with. Then paint. This book is about mental illness and how it to live with someone affects the whole family. who is mental is even harder. It would be very Each layer of paint covers up old memories wanting to be hard to grow up with someone mental in your forgotten. Will Saffee be family like Saffee does. able to remove all those Would be awful to have years layers and layers of the feeling this can happen to you will I grow up like memories from the table? I fully enjoyed the book. This her, if I have children can I carry this on to them. is a good book for everyone to read. I think it will One of her mothers obsessions was a table. A table open some eyes what others might go through. The Painted Table By: Suzanne Field