Susan Meissner
Susan Meissner is a multi-published author, speaker and writing workshop leader with a background in community journalism. A devotee of purposeful pre-writing, Susan encourages workshop audiences to maximize writing time by planning ahead, mapping the writing journey and beginning from a place of intimate knowledge. Her books include The Shape of Mercy, Blue Heart Blessed, and A Window to the World, named by Booklist magazine as one of the Top Ten Christian novels for 2005. When she’s not writing, Susan directs the Small Groups and Connection Ministries program at her San Diego church.
Expected to gracefully embrace a life of privilege, a young woman cuts the purse strings that bind her to plot a new life course. But startling self-realization challenges everything she knows as she begins to study the tragic life of a seventeenth-century victim of the Salem witch trials.
When jilted bride Daisy opens a secondhand wedding dress boutique, she hopes she can at least give the gowns a second chance at love. She befriends a retired priest who blesses the blue satin hearts she sews into each garment. Then one day she meets his son—-and wonders if her own dress might still fit.
A newborn is found alive in a trash bin and a young, single mother insists her baby was abducted. While St. Paul police are skeptical, attorney Rachael Flynn’s strange dreams lead her to believe the mother is telling the truth. But who would steal a baby only to leave it for dead? When the baby disappears again, Rachael agonizes over her decision to allow the baby to be returned to his mother. Did she make a terrible mistake? Rachael races to see past the deception that threatens to send a young mother to prison and a newborn to a terrible fate.