The Button Legacy: Emily’s Inheritance
by Ginger
Marcinkowski
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BLURB:
Based
on the true story of one family’s spiritual saga revealed through buttons that
have been secreted away in an antique box, and that ultimately hold the key to
each generation’s salvation.
Ginger
Marcinkowski’s first novel, Run, River Currents featured Emily Evans, who as a
girl shared a special understanding with her grandfather, John Polk. Despite
the scars of her father's abuse John taught her to look to the future in faith,
promising Emily God's grace can be seen even in the simplest thing—a button.
Years
after her grandfather John's death, the unexpected delivery of a decorated tin,
still brimming with odd-colored buttons is delivered to Emily. The reappearance
of the family buttons unlocks joyous memories and guides Emily to realize a
secret her grandfather promised lay within the stories of that worn button box;
the healing power of prayer. In The Button Legacy: Emily’s Inheritance each
button connects one generation to the next as their interrelated stories unfold
across the timeless landscape of their spiritual journey.
EXCERPT:
“Grampy!” The girl’s thin figure
stood in the living room doorway, her hands placed firmly on her hips. Her face
was stern, crinkled, as though she were about to give the old man a scolding.
“Look!” she said, uncapping her hand to reveal a white button that looked like
it came from the blouse she was wearing. “Someone
nailed my windows shut! I tore the button off my blouse trying to open them.
Look!”
She walked toward John, hand
open. He plucked the small, pink, pearl-like button from her palm, rose from
the chair, and moved toward the oak hutch. Retrieving the button box, he opened
the tin container and dropped the button inside.
“Then I guess we won’t have to
worry about you going to the Legion anymore, will we?” John watched his
granddaughter’s face as it soured. But in seconds, her eyes began to smile and
her head tilted back. A laugh unlike any he had heard come from her in years
warmed the air around him. The wrinkles in his face turned upward, and he, too,
began to laugh.
“That will be a good story
someday, Grampy!” Emily said between her giggles. He opened his arms and
enveloped her, closing his eyes tightly. He praised God in a whisper for
moments like these. He had held his own daughter this way many years before
she’d left home and married. He often prayed that Maureen would finally humble
herself and give the remainder of her days to the Lord. He knew he might never
see that day arrive, but holding his granddaughter, he prayed that she might someday remember this moment
and realize that God had been there with her all along.
Ginger
Marcinkowski was born as one of eight siblings in northern Maine along the
Canadian border, a setting that plays a prominent role in her novels, Run,
River Currents and The Button Legacy-Emily’s Inheritance.
Her debut
novel, Run, River Currents, was published in August 2012, was a 2012
semi-finalist in the ACFW Genesis Awards and a 2013 Kindle Book Award Finalist.
The Button Legacy-Emily's Inheritance, will be released in July 2014. An
interesting fact about Ginger is that she is a million-mile flier with United
Airlines and had been a multi-million dollar travel agent in the past. Her
travel experience will be the catalyst for a new series of mysteries whose main
characters are travel agents.
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Thank you for hosting me today! I do hope your readers will enjoy the excerpt and feel free to ask me questions! Have a great day!
ReplyDeleteWow! Sounds like such an emotional and inspiring story! I love the fact that the tin was delivered after so many years and was used as inspiration for the story. Thank you for sharing this. ❤️
ReplyDeleteWhat a great looking read! I think it belongs next on my tbr pile! I would recommend my curretn read by Darcy Bellows Mascarro, it's a very inspiring read on life after death. A Memoir of sorts, it's called Finding Vern, her book site is findingvern.com. There are so many of these reads that will change you and that is what it's all about I think!
ReplyDeleteI love the sound of this book, Ginger.
ReplyDeleteExcellent excerpt....I want to read this!
ReplyDeleteInteresting characters
ReplyDeleteGreat sounding Story. Thank you for sharing with us today.
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