R.A. Burrell
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    Discover tales which send the reader deep within a labyrinth of secrets and lies, explore rarely glimpsed settings and feature characters who feel like friends and family from the first page turn. 

    The Gospel Tomb
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    The story of a marriage, a woman, and fragile hopes of peace, all threatened by war in Israel’s West Bank.

    When gunships return to the skies over the sweltering refugee camps near Bethlehem, Nate and Micah Timmerman, devoted husband and wife, are bound together by their dreams of finding an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A committed Jewish peace activist and expert game theorist, Nate fights to get his ideas heard by a government which has soured on diplomacy. Micah, a physician with Médecins Sans Frontières and a former refugee herself, needs her medical mission to cope with the scars of losing her family during the Bosnian War. But as the war in Israel has worsened, she’s gone from delivering healthy babies and giving inoculations to digging stray bullets out of children. Nate knows she’s holding on by the slimmest of threads.

    During a night of intense combat, Micah makes a connection with a dying patient, who tells her of a sacred cave said to conceal miraculous powers of healing. Though she sees potential for a medical breakthrough, Nate believes it's merely a symptom of what the cave truly conceals - a long-hidden message with implications for each of the Abrahamic religions. When a rumor breaks out that  Micah alone knows how to access the cave's secrets, she's pitted between two groups vying for control of the power within. With their lives at stake and their faith in each other put to the test, Nate and Micah must find a way to prove that their love, hopes, and dreams can survive a protracted war.
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    spasWhat's Next:  An Affair In Echoes 

    Though the Cold War is a distant memory, two former lovers - a troubled children's advocate and the priest who loves her - are haunted by ghosts of the past.

    Set in St. Petersburg, Russia, and spanning the past century, this is the story of two families, trapped between life and death, and struggling to break the cycle of war. All hopes rest with the last remaining descendants: Delaney Nichols and Fr. Jonas MacNeil.
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