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Sunday Book Review – How Far is Heaven by Janice Spina

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My Sunday Book Review today is for Janice Spina’s – How Far is Heaven. This book is a wonderful mixed genre of family saga and mystery with a touch of spiritual. My favorite character is little Deanna with her big heart, her mature sense of knowing for an 8 year old, and her unrelenting belief in her father.

 

 

 

Blurb:

Parker and Priscilla Wilfork are happily married with two children. Life seemed perfect and peaceful until Parker goes on a business trip and does not return. Priscilla finds her world turned upside down when she searches for answers to how and why Parker disappeared.

One night Priscilla has a dream that Parker is an angel. Does this mean that Parker is now dead? After two years and no sign of Parker except in her dreams, Priscilla makes the decision to tell her children that their father has gone to Heaven.

Priscilla tries to get their lives back together until one day Deanna disappears too. Now Priscilla must go on a quest to find her daughter before it’s too late. She fears her daughter’s disappearance might be connected in some way to her husband’s. Can Priscilla go on with her life if she loses Deanna too?

With the help of a handsome police Sargent, Blake Furelli, they work together to try to find Deanna and solve the mystery behind Parker’s disappearance. During this trying time, Blake, who suffered a loss of his own, feels drawn to the ethereal beauty of Priscilla.

 

My 5 Star Review:

How Far is Heaven  offers a great mix of mystery, romance and angelic messages.

A seemingly happy couple – Parker and Priscilla are broken up by a tragic incident when Parker ventures out for a business trip but never returns home. Priscilla finds help with trying to find her missing husband from a compassionate police Sargent, Blake, who makes it his mission to solve the mystery of her missing husband.

In the midst of the investigation, more grief fills Priscilla when her 8 year old precocious daughter, Deanna, goes missing. We are left wondering how these two events are connected  and we’re kept hoping through the investigation that Deanna will be found. Through the tragedy that ensues, Priscilla tries to keep it all together for the sake of her missing daughter and for her little boy. As the investigation continues, Blake finds himself taking a great shining to Priscilla as he feels a common bond with Priscilla’s loss and his own recent suffering of a great loss. Blake’s compassion for Priscilla grows into a friendship.

Meanwhile, sweet Deanna keeps her hopes of being found alive because of her spiritual connection with her father’s spirit and the ‘promise’ he made her that he’d always protect her.

This book is a moving story of tragedy with faith and love sustaining everyone to keep hope alive while trying to maintain peace and normalcy within a loving family, all the while keeping us glued till the end, as we wait and hope to find out if the little girl will be found and what happened to her father.

Love never dies, even after death.

30 thoughts on “Sunday Book Review – How Far is Heaven by Janice Spina”

  3. Thank you so much for the lovely review, Debby! I was about to promote this book on my blog soon. Now I will showcase your wonderful review there! Thank you again! I’m happy that you enjoyed it. ❤️😘🤗

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  13. Wow! This book sounds like a page-turner and a cliff hanger. Already, I’m wondering “where’d Parker go? Is he a good guy or a bad guy?” and even more importantly, WHERE IS DEANNA?

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