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One father was murdered. Another was convicted of his death. And all because their children fell in love.

Nate Beckett has spent his life fighting wildfires instead of the lies and rumors that drove him from his Colorado hometown. His mother begs him to come back now that his father has been released from prison, but it isn’t until he’s sidelined by an injury that he’s forced to return and face his past. But that means facing Brenna too.

Fourteen years ago, Nate was in love with the preacher’s daughter. When Pastor Strickland discovered Brenna had defied him to sneak out with Nate, the fight between the Pastor and Nate’s drunken dad was loud—and very public. The Pastor was found murdered later that night, and everyone accused Nate’s father, Roy, of the murder. When the church burned down not long after, people assumed Nate set the fire to get even for his father’s conviction. He let the rumors fly and left town without looking back.

Brenna is stunned to learn that the man convicted of murdering her father has been pardoned. The events of that night set her life on a bad course, and now she’s fighting a brutal custody battle with her ex and his new wife where he’s using lies and his family’s money to sway the judge. Brenna is barely hanging on.

As Nate and Brenna deal with the present—including new information about that fateful night and a wildfire that’s threatening their town—the past keeps igniting. Nate is the steady force Brenna has so desperately needed. But she’ll have to learn to trust him again first.

  • Full-length, stand-alone romantic suspense novel
  • Also by New York Times bestselling author Terri Blackstock: If I Run, Intervention, Cape Refuge, Aftermath
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"Blackstock’s intense and twisty story will please fans of her faith-grounded crime dramas." — Publishers Weekly

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'Blackstock's intense and twisty story will please fans of her faith-grounded crime dramas.' -- Publishers Weekly

About the Author

Terri Blackstock has sold over seven million books worldwide and is a New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author. She is the award-winning author of Intervention, Vicious Cycle, and Downfall, as well as such series as Cape Refuge, Newpointe 911, the SunCoast Chronicles, and the Restoration Series. Visit her website at www.terriblackstock.com; Facebook: tblackstock; Twitter: @terriblackstock.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Thomas Nelson (November 5, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0310332605
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0310332602
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.85 x 1.2 x 8.65 inches
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Terri Blackstock is a New York Times best-seller, with over seven million copies sold worldwide. She has had over twenty-five years of success as a novelist. Terri spent the first twelve years of her life traveling in an Air Force family. She lived in nine states and attended the first four years of school in The Netherlands. Because she was a perpetual "new kid," her imagination became her closest friend. That, she believes, was the biggest factor in her becoming a novelist. She sold her first novel at the age of twenty-five, and has had a successful career ever since.

In 1994 Terri was writing for publishers such as HarperCollins, Harlequin, Dell and Silhouette, when a spiritual awakening drew her into the Christian market. As she was praying about her transition, she went on a cruise and noticed that almost everyone on the boat (including her) had a John Grisham novel. It occurred to her that some of Grisham's readers were Christians, and that if she wrote a fast-paced thriller with an added faith element, she might just find her niche. As God would have it, Christian publishers were showing interest in the suspense genre, so she quickly sold a four-book series to Zondervan. Since that time, she's written over thirty Christian titles, most of them suspense novels.

Terri has appeared on national television programs such as "The 700 Club" and "Home Life," and has been a guest on numerous radio programs across the country. The story of her personal journey appears in books such as Touched By the Savior by Mike Yorkey, True Stories of Answered Prayer by Mike Nappa, Faces of Faith by John Hanna, and I Saw Him In Your Eyes by Ace Collins.

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Innocent Until Proven Guilty?
“Innocent until proven guilty.” If only those words were true for Nate Beckett, who left his high school sweetheart behind when Nate’s dad was accused of killing Brenna Strickland’s dad. When the church where Brenna’s father pastored burned down shortly after that, townspeople whispered Nate was responsible.Terri Blackstock is one of the best voices in Christian suspense. I always start her books thinking, maybe I won’t like this one as much as her others. But each time Ms. Blackstock proves me wrong, whipping up the tension into high winds, my reading satisfaction spreading like wildfire as I navigate (in this case) through the very realistic, sad mess that two families have made of their lives once tragedy strikes. I loved the twists that Blackstock incorporates, as well as the strong, solid faith message she projects. Blackstock’s remarks about faith are clear and concise, not preachy. I questioned an event at the end, but then again, people can be unpredictable and don’t always make the decisions one might expect. If you love faith-filled suspense, this is a great book for you.I received a complimentary copy of this book from the author and publisher through Celebrate Lit via NetGalley. This is no way influenced my opinions, which are solely my own.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wow
Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2024
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This book was an awesome to read. This had all of favorite plot like heroism, mystery, faith. I couldn't put the ebook down.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful book.
Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2024
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Terri Blackstocks books are so well written. I loved this one especially. Her mysteries leave you feeling hopeful and good.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A well-told crime drama around the center post of Christian faith
Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2019
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Reading Terri Blackstock’s latest release was a return to one of my favorite authors after a couple of years of meandering on the hills and vales of several other sub-genres of Christian fiction. But it was Terri who first introduced me years ago to the crime and suspense sub-genre of the Christian literature, and her latest novel, Smoke Screen, reminds me of the debt of gratitude I owe to this superb award-winning writer.

Other reviewers have aptly spelled out the storyline, so I won’t use this review to duplicate their work but will focus on the characters and the themes of faith that are intertwined in those events.

Firstly, I want to take notice of Terri’s interesting and unusual way of delivering the narrative in alternating first-person passages. Brenna and Nate are the central characters, and every part of the story is delivered through the eyes of either Brenna or Nate. By this method we see into their minds, hearts, and values as they encounter challenges and hardships.

Secondly, it is a story of fractured relationships crisscrossing multiple families and spanning many years. Those breaches of love and trust are born of the failure to assume the best rather than the worst, even among those most loved, and obdurately clinging to the bitterness of wrongs suffered or imagined.

Nate is a highly principled, noble, and selfless heroic figure. He works in the dangerous occupation of a “smokejumper” – a firefighter who parachutes into the vicinity of forest fires. His faith is exemplary and well placed. He approaches life in the firm assurance that no evil that befalls God’s people escapes his notice, no wound is beyond his power to heal, and no adversary too powerful for him to defeat.

Brenna’s highest desire is to be a good mother and care for her children. But cruel fate – not of Brenna’s doing – threatens to rob her of that privilege, and that impending but seemingly certain calamity has wrecked her life. To ameliorate the pain of her loss, Brenna turns to alcohol and in so doing, turns dreaded misfortune into catastrophe.

Sue – Nate’s mother – is a character worth mentioning. She is the perfect model of a godly wife and mother, hiding her own hurts and invariably tending others’ pain as she seeks to promote reconciliation between others who become alienated by reacting badly to cruel trials.

Life has dealt harshly and unfairly with Roy, Nate’s father. After fourteen years in prison for a crime he was falsely accused of, he has made significant progress in setting his life on a better path than before, largely through the faithful ministrations of his faithful wife Sue. But still Roy is a complex and rancorous character, seeking resolution of the horrific wrong done to him and most of all, needing the sweet balm that comes of forgiving others for real or suspected wrongs.

Jack is at the same time a monster and a weakling under his more monstrous father’s iron-fisted control. Like a simpering adolescent he allows himself to be manipulated, becoming an accomplice in wreaking havoc in the lives of his father’s targeted victims.

I think differently from some other reviewers about Brenna’s drinking. In my mind it is not a simple yardstick on which one may measure her fitness as a mother, but a massive self-created failure which – like Israel’s king David - she detested in herself and over which she cried out to God to lead her to victory. We see God’s response to her cries in Nate’s firm lovingkindness and the flickering wick of Brenna’s own resolve.

Brenna’s drinking is an essential part of this story for it presents a central truth of our faith. God reconstitutes wrecked lives. Even Simon Peter was swiftly rehabilitated. God lifts up the fallen…straightens what is bent…mends what is broken…heals the brokenhearted...takes us out of the pit and from the miry clay and sets our feet on the rock…it’s what he does for the human race. But he does not reveal the finish at the beginning of his work. Rather, he desires faith like Nate’s to carry his people through.

Terri Blackstock ably illustrates this central column in the Christian’s system of belief.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Second Chance Christian Romance
Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2019
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SMOKE SCREEN by Terri Blackstock is her new standalone Christian second chance romance. This is an entertaining and intriguing easy-to-read romance with realistic characters and a mystery subplot.

Fourteen years ago, while in high school, Brenna Strickland, the pastor’s daughter and Nate Beckett, the son of the town drunk fell in love. When Brenna was found to be defying her father and sneaking out to meet Nate, Pastor Strickland confronted Nate’s father in the local bar. It was very loud and very public. The pastor was later found killed in this car and Nate’s father was accused and sent to prison. When the church burned down, not long after, Nate was rumored to have set it because he left town the next day, but he was never charged.

Nate has spent his life as a hotshot fighting wildfires. After being burned while rescuing a family from a wildfire, Nate is put on leave just as his father is coming home after being pardoned by the governor. His mother asks him to come home and he decides to return to face his father and his past.

Brenna is now divorced with two children and living across the street from Nate’s brother. Brenna is in the middle of a brutal custody battle and has lost her faith. She uses alcohol to cope when her children are with their father and his new wife. She is shocked to learn of Nate’s father’s pardon and does not know what to do with her feelings of guilt and anger.

Nate reconnects with Brenna and they easily fall back into their old feelings. Nate wants to help Brenna get over her need for alcohol, fight for her children and find her faith again. When new information on the pastor’s murder surfaces and an arsonist sets wildfires that threaten their town, Nate and Brenna must rely on each other, fight for the truth and be willing to believe in a future together.

I loved Nate and how he turned his life around. He is definitely BBF material and his life as a hotshot was interesting. I felt terrible and frustrated with Brenna. She was a great mother, but her alcohol abuse, while realistic, left me so frustrated. She was giving up and not fighting for her children until Nate showed her how. I was also not aware of the author’s previous books and that this book was a Christian romance, which I would not have read if I had known and I would have missed out on a good story.

The mystery from the past of the pastor’s murder and the church arson where both written and integrated into the story well and tied to the present day wildfire and Brenna’s custody battle. The solution was easy to figure out, but still satisfying.

Overall, I recommend this second chance romance.
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jahoody
5.0 out of 5 stars Riveting from start to finish
Reviewed in Canada on December 20, 2020
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A compelling read from start to finish,that addresses that addresses complex issues with a personal narrative. Not only enjoyable but truly informative if anyone needs an excuse to kick back say you’re researching firefighting and settle down for a good read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting characters and returning to home soil. (I believe God has a sense of humour returning us back where hurts has shaped us to run. Bringing us back to heal n restore) I could relate to custody issues n having your character written as an unfit mother!
Reviewed in Australia on November 15, 2019
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It's true people take sides and dig for dirt. Nate's mums personality character amazes me with her faith in God to get justice. I have to say I cheated and read the ending before reading as I got involved in the story where I could relate
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Lydia
5.0 out of 5 stars Riveting
Reviewed in Canada on June 1, 2020
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Read it in one sitting. Couldn’t put it down. Took life’s real issues and showed how God is the answer for a time of need
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5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it
Reviewed in Canada on December 25, 2019
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Great book. Hard to put down. Some parts are frustrating because of some comments made by some of the characters but unfortunately it's all so realistic to the way many people act.
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Anneke Hart
5.0 out of 5 stars No filthy language to deal with......
Reviewed in Canada on January 24, 2020
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You know it is a good book when you can not put it down and end up reading it in one day. Awesome.
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