About the Book
Book: Right Before Their Eyes
Author: Carrie Walker
Genre: Romantic Women’s Fiction
Release Date: February 5, 2025
Sometimes the love you need most looks
different than you imagined.
Clare Martin thought nothing of agreeing to live with her dementia-ridden grandmother when her parents left on mission. Balancing that with her job as a social worker and the expectations of her career-driven boyfriend proved doable—until Grandma started a house fire.
Mason Hughes has loved Clare for years, but the time was never right to tell her and now she’s dating someone else, fixing Mason firmly in the friend zone. He’s working to be a pediatric neurologist, a dream inspired by a special boy with a terminal brain condition, and must choose a medical school. Finances are so tight he’s forced to consider a program across the country, a troubling fact he’s kept secret.
Lucia Roberts, a seventeen-year-old on Clare’s caseload, loses her foster home and is placed in an unwelcoming group home. At every turn she’s met with rejection and becomes desperate for any proof she has value—enough to make choices that could affect the rest of her life.
When Grandma Dottie and Lucia’s paths take a dangerous turn, Clare frantically tries to save them. As their lives knit together, will they find the love that’s right before their eyes?
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About the Author
Carrie Walker lives in Michigan with her
husband and seven children. From her ten years serving as a high
school youth minister, adventures around the globe, and raising a
family, many stories have been knit within her heart.
As an avid reader she pens what she loves to read, contemporary stories that bring hope to a hurting world. Weaving romance among story lines of characters in struggle, she aims to show God working in all situations. When she’s not playing board games with her husband, shuttling kids in the Walker bus or wishing for snow, Carrie can be found at the keyboard bringing those stories to life.
Carrie’s writing has been recognized in many contests. Her debut novel, Emma’s Hero, won the IAN Book of the Year for Christian Fiction, was a double finalist in the International Book Awards, placed in the ACFW Crown Award, Monroe Walton Center for the Arts Award, and won the 2020 ACFW First Impressions Contest.
More from Carrie
When I was writing “Emma’s Hero” I had a few readers that took an early peek at it, before it was completed. More than once, I was informed “This is not the only book, right?” And so, this story was a reality in my mind, before it was even thought of. This book just was. And the characters helped tell the story. Mason grew a lot in Emma’s Hero, but he has a lot more growing to do, especially in the realm of relationships, communication and figuring out how to live this newfound faith. Grandma Dottie is a character inspired by a combination of both my grandmothers, and there is a story she tells to Mason almost halfway through the story that is a true story borrowed from my own grandparents That’s all I’m telling you, you’ll have to find it. But I just love that a part of their love story made it into mine.
Blog Stops
Debbie’s Dusty Deliberations, September 11
Stories By Gina, September 12 (Author Interview)
Truth and Grace Homeschool Academy , September 13
Simple Harvest Reads, September 14 (Author Interview)
Artistic Nobody, September 15 (Author Interview)
Mary Hake, September 15
Guild Master, September 16 (Author Interview)
Texas Book-aholic, September 17
Fiction Book Lover, September 18 (Author Interview)
Tell Tale Book Reviews, September 19 (Author Interview)
Blossoms and Blessings, September 20 (Author Interview)
Happily Managing a Household of Boys, September 21
Jodie Wolfe – Stories Where Hope and Quirky Meet, September 22 (Author Interview)
A Reader’s Brain , September 23 (Author Interview)
A Modern Day Fairy Tale, September 24 (Author Interview)
The Bookish Pilgrim, September 24
Giveaway
To celebrate
her tour, Carrie is giving away the grand prize of a $40 Amazon
gift card and a copy of the book!!
Be sure to comment on the blog stops for extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter.
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Interview
What has been your greatest writing achievement to date? Hmmm. My books have been recognized in a number of contests (International Book Award, Independent Author Network, Faith Hope and Love Readers Choice Awards), and they are all such an honor. Emma’s Hero recently won a Silver Medal in the Selah Awards and that was a very special moment for me.
If you could give advice to a newbie writer, what would it be? Take your time and enjoy this phase where you are writing without a deadline or worrying about pitching a story. Once you publish there are so many hats to wear and I often reflect on how I was in such a rush to get here I didn’t enjoy the early phase enough. Also, don’t let negative feedback get you down. Learn from it (if it’s legitimate feedback) and move on. Reading is a subjective sport and what one person criticizes, often times another will love.
Tell us about your writing process. In order to start a story I need to be able to picture the opening scene and the apex point (that ‘all is lost’ moment when the whole story is in chaos). I also need to know my characters well and spend enough time with a plot idea that I can convince myself there is a story there. But I don’t plot out every detail. As long as I know where the story needs to get, I let the characters lead me there (so long as their plans can get me to that apex point I envisioned.)
Do you use humor at all in your writing? Oh yes. I love to laugh. I love witty humor. And I feel that the serious moments of a story are even more poignant if you’ve had light moments mixed in as well.
Do your books revolve around certain themes? All the books in this series center around two main themes: the purpose of a life and showing how God is working.
