Amy Anguish: No Place Like Home

I’m honored to have my friend and fellow Scrivenings author Amy Anguish sharing a little about her upcoming release No Place Like Home, which looks like a gorgeous read! Coming December 7th.

Welcome and congratulations, Amy! Tell us more. 

If you’ve been around for any time at all, you’ve heard the phrase “Bloom where you are planted.” It makes for really cute t-shirts and mugs and wall plaques or garden signs. But have you ever considered exactly what it means?

It’s a quote that has become a big part of my life through the years. Considering the fact I’ve never lived anywhere longer than six years (and that only twice), you can imagine I’ve been transplanted a few times. And that can do one of two things—either damage your root system, or make it stronger.

I’d like to think it made mine stronger. I know how to thrive in each situation, putting down roots and finding places to serve. It’s not always easy, but I know how.

Well, I took all that craziness of moving so many times growing up, along with a bit more, and I wove it into my newest novel, No Place Like Home. My character Adrian chose to let all her moves damage her root system until she decided it was easier to simply not put any down.

Instead, she works a job where she travels around all the time, training companies to use computer software. She avoids her family. And she doesn’t let anyone get close.

That’s not blooming. It’s surviving. And just barely.

Needless to say, she needs to learn to live the phrase we started with.

Another way to put it would be to quote the last part of Philippians 4:11, “I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content.” And if Paul could be content after everything he went through (jail, shipwrecked, beaten, etc), how can we not?

So, do you bloom where you are planted? Do you dig your roots in and find a niche in the community? Or do you survive, barely letting your roots touch the soil? I’d much rather dig in and thrive than only survive, wouldn’t you?

Can love secure Adrian’s wandering heart?

Roots are overrated, at least to someone like Adrian Stewart, preacher’s kid, who has never lived anywhere longer than six years. That’s why her job with MidUSLogIn is so perfect for her—lots of travel and staying nowhere long enough to have it feel like home. But when work takes her to Memphis, TN, closer to her family for the first time in years, and in the same small office as Grayson Roberts, she starts to question her job, her lack of home, and even her memories of her rocky past with the church.

Gray is intrigued by Adrian from the moment he sees her, and he’s determined to get to the bottom of why this girl who loves old movies and hums when she works won’t go to church with him. As they grow closer, he wants more, too, but how can he convince her to stay in Memphis when she doesn’t believe in home—or God? Can he use his own broken past to break through hers?

 

Amy R Anguish

Amy R Anguish grew up a preacher’s kid, and in spite of having lived in seven different states that are all south of the Mason Dixon line, she is not a football fan. Currently, she resides in Tennessee with her husband, daughter, and son, and usually a bossy cat or two. Amy has an English degree from Freed-Hardeman University that she intends to use to glorify God, and she wants her stories to show that while Christians face real struggles, it can still work out for good.

Preorder today! scrivenings.link/noplacelikehome

Follow her at http://abitofanguish.weebly.com or http://www.facebook.com/amyanguishauthor

Or https://twitter.com/amy_r_anguish

Learn more about her books at https://www.pinterest.com/msguish/my-books/

And check out the YouTube channel she does with two other authors, Once Upon a Page https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEiu-jq-KE-VMIjbtmGLbJA