Count Your Blessings: Songs of the Heart - Volume 3 - Paperback

by Norma Vaughn Danzey (Author)

Count Your Blessings. . . the story about the children of the characters in the first two Songs of the Heart novels. . . Joanna has become a bit rebellious and makes some unwise choices. Her parents, both music majors, plan for their only child to become a concert pianist. Now Joanna feels God calling her to work with special needs children. Suddenly, her life is changed when her mother is seriously burned in a house fire. Guilt overtakes Joanna when she thinks an enemy started the fire to harm her. Joanna's childhood friend and neighbor, Jesse, becomes her strongest support. Torn between informing her parents of her desire to give up her studies at Juilliard, or continuing on her present course to please them, she takes a long deserved vacation. She loves the Gulf Coast and her Aunt Sarah's beach house, but a trip to Gulf Shores ends in terror and tests Joanna's faith. Now Joanna must struggle with the threatening problems of keeping herself and an innocent child safe from a deranged man. How can she live with the thought that she may have killed someone? Will she find her way home, and will she realize the man who has always been her hero wants to be much more? Joanna keeps a gratitude journal, and throughout her trials, she discovers hidden blessings. As evil tries to triumph, Joanna's faith keeps her one step ahead in her quest to find herself.

Author Biography

Norma Vaughn Danzey lives on the Gulf Coast with her husband. She has two children and three teen-age grandchildren. After earning a Master's Degree in education, she taught school for twenty-two years. Her second career as an author began in 2009. She has written three inspirational fiction novels and has the fourth one in mind. Norma enjoys music, reading and writing. You may find out more about her books by going to her website. http: //www.songsoftheheart.info http: //www.amazon.com/author/normadanzey