What I Would Tell You Epic Book Launch with Celebrate Lit

About the Book

Book: What I Would Tell You

Author: Liz Tolsma

Genre: Christian Fiction / Romance / Historical Fiction

Release date: January 1, 2023

DNA Test Unlocks a Family Mystery

Sephardic Jew Mathilda Nissim watches in horror as the Germans invade her beloved city of Salonika, Greece. What angers her most is the lack of resistance her people put up to their captors. In secret and at great risk to her life, she continues to publish her newspaper, calling her people to action. She doesn’t trust God to help them. When she and her husband find out they are expecting a child, Mathilda may have to resort to desperate measures to ensure her daughter’s survival.

Three generations later, college student Riley Payson and her cousin take a popular DNA test only to discover they don’t share any common ancestors. In fact, the test shows Riley is a Sephardic Jew from Greece. This revelation shakes Riley’s tenuous faith and sends her on a journey to discover what happened to her great-grandmother and how all this relates to her faith and her life today.

BOOK EXCERPT

Excerpt 7

Asher kissed her cheek and squeezed her shoulder. “I understand.”

And that is what she loved so much about him. He always understood. Maybe he didn’t agree with her writing so much.

And he was correct. The Nazis would find it inflammatory. Some of the Greeks already did. But he never disparaged her work. He always fully supported her.

He pried up a few of the wood floorboards, creating an opening between a couple of the joists. The space was just enough for her to place her precious book of thoughts, her private ramblings. And now her witness to the events that were about to take place in her homeland.

When she and Asher had moved to this flat, they had dreamed of this room being a nursery. Dio had different plans for them. Though married three years now, no children had come along. In these times, that was a good thing, a blessing from above.

With the Germans here, a child would not have a good life. He would grow up in fear, being hated, scorned, and always under the threat of being taken away. No, it was better that it remained just her and Asher. Together the two of them could stand strong against the Germans, the Schuss.

As Israel of old had stood firm against the Philistines, David defeating the giant, so they would stand against this giant who once more taunted the people of God.

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Excerpt One: https://travelerswife4life.com/book-spotlight-what-i-would-tell-you-by-liz-tolsma/

Excerpt Two: https://janemouttet.wordpress.com/2022/12/13/what-i-would-tell-you-epic-book-launch-excerpt/

Excerpt Three: https://blossomsandblessings.blogspot.com/2022/11/what-i-would-tell-you-by-liz-tolsma.html

Excerpt Four: https://moments-of-beauty.blogspot.com/2022/12/what-i-would-tell-you-epic-book-launch.html

Excerpt Five: https://carolkeen.blogspot.com/2022/12/what-i-would-tell-you-epic-book-launch.html

Excerpt Six: https://www.amoderndayfairytale.net/2022/12/what-i-would-tell-you-epic-book-launch.html

Excerpt Seven: https://storiesbygina.wordpress.com/2022/12/13/what-i-would-tell-you-epic-book-launch-with-celebrate-lit/

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 

Liz Tolsma is the author of several WWII novels, romantic suspense novels, prairie romance novellas, and an Amish romance. She is a popular speaker and an editor and resides next to a Wisconsin farm field with her husband and their youngest daughter. Her son is a US Marine, and her oldest daughter is a college student. Liz enjoys reading, walking, working in her large perennial garden, kayaking, and camping. Please visit her website at http://www.liztolsma.com and follow her on Facebook, Twitter (@LizTolsma), Instagram, YouTube, and Pinterest. She is also the host of the Christian Historical Fiction Talk podcast.