Mission
Mesquite
Diane
Tatum
January
16, 2017
269
pp.
Buy: $3.99 Kindle US
While Kate Lawrence's parents served in Cote d'Ivoire as
career missionaries. Kate's education came in a French boarding school and
American University in Paris and Georgetown. Now a Foreign Service Officer for
the US State Department, she wants nothing to do with the missionary lifestyle.
When she finally agrees to visit their new mission post Mission Mesquite, the
rodeo church at the Mesquite Arena in Dallas, Kate meets Tyler Hawkins, attractive
All American Cowboy who has since been crippled by a bull trampling. They have
an instant connection, but Kate doesn't know that Tyler has just completed
seminary and mission training and is poised to take over Mission Mesquite once
her parents retire. How can Kate resolve the conflict between her and God and
her heart? Will Tyler's past as a free-wheeling cowboy cut short his ministry?
Mission Mesquite is a contemporary Christian romance.
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work.
Diane Tatum grew up in St. Louis, MO. She started writing
her own stories in elementary school. Her first novel grew out of a short story
she wrote in high school. College was a detour to a Bachelor's degree in
Accounting and Business Administration and later a Masters in Teaching Language
Arts. Between degrees, she stayed home raising her boys and began writing
again. She started freelance writing for magazines and church Sunday school
curriculum. She also finished her novel, Gold Earrings.
After teaching middle school language arts in Tullahoma City Schools for 11
years, she retired with her husband's encouragement to write the historical
fiction books that she had been starting and saving on her computer. Gold Earrings was published in 2011. She completed her second novel, A Time to
Choose, in 2012, and finished her third, Colonial Dream, in 2013. In addition
she serves as an adjunct English professor at Motlow State Community College.
