Title: Covenant Child

Author: Terri Blackstock

Publisher: W Publishing Group

ISBN: 0-849-94301-9

Genre: Inspirational/Contemporary/Fiction

At their birth the press dubbed Kara and Lizzie Holbrooke the “billion-dollar babies,” but Amanda doesn’t see them that way, she sees helpless little girls.

Amanda never expects love to come her way, but when she meets the charismatic widower, Jack Holbrooke, she suddenly believes in love at first sight. In a matter of weeks, she is happily married and the doting mother of Jack’s three-year-old twin girls. Her life is perfect. But a short six months later, her world collapses when her husband and his wealthy parents are killed in a plane crash. Amanda is shocked to discover she is the sole heir to their billion-dollar empire.

But all that matters to her is keeping her promise to her husband to raise his daughters in a loving and Godly home. When the court system rips the young girl’s from her arms, Amanda is devastated. Her single purpose in life becomes protecting the inheritance until she can return it to the girls. However, the twin’s grandparents have turned the girls against her. Will Amanda’s broken heart ever be reconciled to the twins she dearly loves? Not if the twins have their way.

All Kara and Lizzie Holbrooke can remember is living a life of unimaginable poverty. After the death of their father the court awarded custody of the twin girls to their only blood relatives, maternal grandparents Deke and Eloise Krebbs. Instantly, the young girls are thrust from a loving home into a nightmare of indigence and abuse.

The Krebb’s sole interest seems to be gambling away the money they annually receive to raise the girls. Kara and Lizzie are forced to fend for themselves because of their grandparents’ apathy and soon learn to survive by shoplifting. The neglected girls develop into troubled teens with a giant chip on their shoulder towards their devious stepmother, Amanda, who cheated them out of the family fortune. Their main agenda in life is to survive until their eighteenth birthday so they can sue Amanda Holbrooke and regain the inheritance that rightfully belongs to them.

Once again, Terri Blackstock has crafted a powerfully gripping story in Covenant Child, a vivid allegory of grace and forgiveness. Covenant Child is the story of a promise kept, a story of how selfless love can conquer fear and unbelief. Blackstock doesn’t shy away from tough subjects like promiscuity and abuse, but molds these issues into a tale of God’s powerful love and and forgiveness. Readers are quickly drawn into this fascinating story and will find Covenant Child very difficult to put down.