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Fiction Addiction
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Meet North Carolina Christian Fiction Author Marybeth Whalen 

Greenville, SC, June 23, 2012 - North Carolina author Marybeth Whalen will be discussing and signing her new Christian fiction novel, The Guest Book (Zondervan, paperback, $14.99, on sale 7/3/12) on Monday, August 20th, 2012 at 7:00pm at St. Giles Presbyterian Church (1021 Hudson Rd., Greenville).  

The event is free and open to the public, but admission tickets are required. Tickets may be reserved by calling the event sponsor, Fiction Addiction, at 864-675-0540 or stopping by the store (please note that the store is moving in July from its current location at 1020A Woodruff Road to a larger space at 1175 Woods Crossing Rd). 

When Macy Dillon was five years old, her father encouraged her to draw a picture in the guest book of a Carolina beach house. The next year, Macy returned to discover a drawing by an unidentified little boy on the facing page. Over the next eleven years, the children continue to exchange drawings . . . until tragedy ends visits to the beach house altogether. During her final trip to Sunset, Macy asks her anonymous friend to draw her one last picture and tells him where to hide the guest book in hopes that one day she will return to find it -- and him. Twenty-five years after that first picture, Macy is back at Sunset Beach -- this time toting a broken family and a hurting heart. One night, alone by the ocean, Macy asks God to help her find the boy she never forgot, the one whose beautiful pictures touched something deep inside of her. Will she ever find him? And if she does, will the guest book unite them or merely be the relic of a lost childhood?

 
Marybeth Whalen and her husband Curt have been married for 20 years and are the parents of six children, ranging in age from college to kindergarten. They live outside Charlotte, NC. Marybeth is the author of The Mailbox and She Makes It Look Easy. Her newest novel, The Guest Book, brings readers back to Sunset Beach, NC, and will release this summer. She spends most of her time in the grocery store but occasionally escapes long enough to scribble some words. She is always at work on her next novel. You can find her at www.marybethwhalen.com.