Right Before Their Eyes Tour & Giveaway

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.

MY REVIEW

Beautiful story to remind us that what we have been praying for is sometimes right in front of you. I understand how Mason feels about Clare. They have been friends forever and any time Clare needs something Mason drops everything to help her. Which I could say the same about Clare’s boyfriend Aiden. It was exciting to see that Mason has two big opportunities to pursue his dream. What he can’t decide is if he should take one particular position that would move him away from Clare. I love how Mason thinks of others before himself. He is a kind man who wants to follow God’s plan for him , but his heart is hurting for Clare’s attention.

Clare has a big heart to help children in need. One particular young girl really grabs her attention. Lucia has been shuffled around from foster care to a girls home to foster care again. She wants someone to want her so bad that she starts to make bad decisions. The rejection she has being dealing is overwhelming. Clare has her hands full taking care of her grandma who has dementia, a caseload of protecting children and a boyfriend who I don’t think puts her first at all.

Grab a copy of this book as the author illustrates how He gives wisdom, protection and unconditional love. I loved the characters and appreciated seeing the flaws in them and how they turned to God for direction.

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