Sunday, April 10, 2022

Dial E

About the Book

Book: Dial E for Endearment

Author: Heidi Gray McGill

Genre: Sweet Christian Contemporary Romance

Release date: February 1, 2022

Dial E for Endearment Everly Johnson is every man’s dream of the perfect date, even though none of her audience has met her. As host for the Choose Joy segment of JOY Radio in Blowing Rock, North Carolina, she receives countless gifts of flowers and candy on behalf of her admires, which she promptly donates to her mother’s assisted living facility. What Everly wants are words–heartfelt, meaningful endearments meant for her ears only. She wants a man who will open her eyes to everything she cannot see to make her feel more than just the voice behind the mic.

Cameron Boyd struggles to make eye contact with anyone, let alone say something coherent unless it is the one-way conversation he has each Friday with Everly Johnson. Date night for Cam involves sitting alone on his back porch overlooking the Blue Ridge Mountains while he dreams of things to say if he were ever to call in to her show.

A chance meeting changes everything.

Will Cam be able to step out of his comfort zone and into the world he has only been able to envision in his mind? Will Everly trust this stranger with her life as well as her heart?

Tune into JOY Radio to find out!

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About the Author

Author Image 2021 Heidi is an optimist who chooses to find the silver lining in life’s clouds of doubt. This plays out in her writing. Her ability to seamlessly weave scripture into the lives of her characters will uplift and encourage you, while her masterful storytelling will keep you turning page after page and wishing for more.

Heidi lives with her husband of thirty years near Charlotte, NC. When she isn’t writing, you will find her outside playing with her two grandsons, walking, scrapbooking, reading, cooking, traveling, or finding an excuse to have an outing with a girlfriend.

More from Heidi

Everly, the main character in Dial E for Endearment and I have something in common, but it may not be what you’d expect. As Blowing Rock, NC’s JOY Radio talk show host, Everly has discovered fulfillment, but she hasn’t found love, at least not for her—not even from her mother. In Dial E for Endearment, Everly wants words–heartfelt, meaningful endearments meant for her ears only. She wants a man who will open her eyes to everything she cannot see to make her feel more than just the voice behind the mic.

You may know me as an author, but did you know I am also the retired Director and Founder of an ESL program, regularly walk 12 plus miles a week, care for my grandsons, scrapbook, read voraciously, cook, and am legally blind? That last phrase was difficult for me to say out loud not that long ago.

Vision loss does not discriminate.

My diagnosis in 2001 of Retinitis Pigmentosa was devastating. There is no cure. There is no surgery. But that does not mean there is no hope.

I still have value.

Those who do not know me well often don’t realize I have low vision. As humans, we are amazingly adaptable, and I do a pretty good job covering up my disability. My friends have learned to watch out for me and alert me to potential pitfalls, some better than others, which is always good for a laugh. I use a cane when I’m navigating alone. I’ve traveled to China—that cane my only companion.

Being blind is certainly not something I would have chosen,

but it does not define me.

Join me on this fun adventure and see for yourself that God does not discriminate. You’ll laugh your way through mishaps–most of which may have happened to me at some point…although I’ll most likely deny if asked. But most of all, you’ll learn that we ALL have value, and that includes YOU.

February is Low Vision Awareness Month.

MY REVIEW

There are so many reason I liked this book. It was a sweet clean story with characters that you want to sit and talk to forever. I like how the author introduced a character with vision problems that didn’t slow her down. Everly never let her disability be a reason she couldn’t accomplish anything. Her job is very interesting as a radio personality who gives Christian advice to singles. She has a good heart but her childhood left emotional scars. Everly has never quite felt loved especially by her mother. One of the best scenes in the entire book is when Everly is with her mother at the hospital. Everly’s mother tries to help her understand why she grew up in an environment where there was never a stable man around to show her what it means to be loved by a father. In a very vulnerable moment her mother gives her the best advice when she says, “Fall in love, deeply, passionately, and fully. Never settle for less than God’s best for you.”

Cam is just about the best guy ever. He really tries to be friends with Everly but he seems to say the wrong thing or try too much to win her approval. Funny that they both have an issue with acceptance. God sure had a plan when he had them cross paths. Their relationship is like a sitcom where someone misunderstands the other and trust is broken. Cam is worried that he can’t repair the damage he has done and is beating himself up for what he said. In his weakest moment, he turns to God to help him. I could feel this big weight lifted from him as he pours his heart out to God.

The story was fun to read and I was happy with the ending. It is nice to read a book every once in awhile that is just a relaxing, feel good story that brings joy to your life.

I received a copy of this book from Celebrate Lit. The review is my own opinion.

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