16 June 2025

the ties that loose | excerpt + giveaway

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about the book


Can you really trust God when life plummets out of your control?

While clearing out her mother’s estate, Dani Robicheau Kirkland makes a shocking discovery: a box containing pieces of her parents’ life hidden away after her father was declared Killed in Action in the Vietnam War. Inside she finds her mother had once clung to faith and the desperate certainty her husband was alive before she spiraled into the devastated alcoholic Dani has known.

Dani’s F-15 pilot husband, Chris, chafes under his father’s expectations to live up to his granddad’s legacy as WWII pilot. While the Bosnian War rages, Chris is tasked with a clandestine mission: flying an unsanctioned diplomat into Bosnia. But when his plane goes down due to a bird strike, Chris is trapped behind enemy lines with little hope of rescue.

Dani is terrified she’ll nosedive like her mother did, but still clings to hope and a certainty that Chris remains alive despite the Air Force’s doubts. As she searches for a way to bring Chris home and he strives to stay alive, they each battle their family histories desperate to find God’s future for them both.

Family ties ensnare them. Can God loose their grip forever?

publisher: salt & light publishing
release date: may 23, 2025


excerpt

Two raps on the door jamb lifted Chris’s eyes. Maj. Bill Price, call sign Baron, and the Assistant Operations Officer stood in the doorway. Chris tossed his pencil on the desk. “What’s up, Baron?”

Baron’s lips thinned. “Badger wants you in the vault.”

First, the block of flying time scheduled for his plane, and now a summons to the vault?

As one of the squadron’s instructor pilots, regular calls to the operations officer’s office weren’t out of the ordinary. But those requests were always via email or phone call. A personal, verbal invitation would leave no paper trail and could be silenced under orders. And the invitation was not to the office but to the vault, a location that housed all the classified materials behind a steel door and was littered with alarms.

Curiouser and curiouser. Chris gave his schedule another glance, the FHP piece slowly rotating in his head. “On my way.”

Baron nodded but didn’t leave. Instead, he stepped back and waited while Chris password-protected his computer screen.

They made the short walk to the vault in silence. Once there, Baron stepped in front of him and led him to one of the offices inside. He rapped twice, then opened the door and stepped back. Chris nodded and glanced into the room, smothering his surprise.

Badger, Lt. Col. Conrad Marks, the operations officer was there as expected. But Lt. Col. Javier Brown, the squadron commander, as well as Chris’s flight commander, Captain Jimmy Hoyle, callsign Dodger, filled the other chairs around the metal table.

Something big was up.

about the author


Felicia Ferguson achieved master’s degrees in Healthcare Administration and Speech-Language Pathology, but has written since childhood and dreamed of authoring books that teach and inspire others. An award-winning fiction and non-fiction freelance writer, she has published several devotions and sweet romance short stories. Her passion, however, is writing women’s fiction and romantic suspense with strong female characters who work through their traumas and tragedies using biblical principles and counseling techniques.

As a child, Felicia lived in Kansas, Texas, and Louisiana before her family settled on a horse and cattle farm in Kentucky. As an adult, she lived in Tennessee for two years and later spent ten years in the Florida panhandle soaking up the sand and sun. But then God moved her once again. This time out of the South and into the mountains of Colorado. When she’s not glued to her laptop, Felicia enjoys hiking, Bible studies with friends, and looking forward to the next story.

Connect with Felicia by visiting feliciafergusonauthor.com to follow her on social media and subscribe to email updates.

giveaway

(1) winner will receive a That’s So 90s Trivia Game, in honor of the book being set in the 1990s!


Full tour schedule linked below. The giveaway begins at midnight June 16, 2025 and will last through 11:59 PM EST on June 23, 2025. Winner will be notified within 2 weeks of close of the giveaway and given 48 hours to respond or risk forfeiture of prize. US only. Void where prohibited by law or logistics.


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3 comments:

  1. Im looking forward to checking this book out. Thanks for sharing.

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  2. Sounds like a great read. Thanks for sharing.

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