What's the story behind your latest book?
As cops it’s sometimes difficult to maintain a positive outlook on life. You’re dealt every negative aspect that life has to offer, even on the inside of the Thin Blue Line. As Christians they’re even more scrutinized, not only on how they deal with others, but also how they deal with themselves. It’s exceptionally difficult to love others when everyone around you has nothing but contempt and hate for you, except for the few friends that you have on the inside of the Thin Blue Line. Daniel will reach a crossroad of faith and mental stability. He will have to make serious choices about his faith in Christ, his career and most of all his marriage. How we as Christians deal with the trials and tribulations of this life can best be told from a cop’s perspective. Cops have a code, a brotherhood that no other person can understand. They call it the Thin Blue Line for a reason. As Christians our stance in life is much the same. We can fold and not serve God, or we can take a stand and walk by faith. It’s also a code and a brotherhood. A brotherhood of God’s children. It can be equated as The Thin Blue Cross.
What motivated you to become an indie author?
This is a story written from two different perspectives: one of a husband and one of a wife. Our individual lives started from two diverse worlds and combined to become one life in 1987. We considered ourselves the typical, normal suburban family. As we grew in our marriage and focused on raising our children, we were determined to do so with God in first place and the kids in church. Unfortunately, the circumstances of life came into play a few years into our marriage and developed into a near cataclysmic end to two wonderful relationships: Our marriage to each other and our marriage to Christ.
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