A Mile from Sunday
Jo Kadlacek
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A Mile from Sunday
Jo Kadlacek
NavPress
Paperback
335 pages
August 2006
rated 5 of 5 possible stars
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Finally, at long last, a novel with a heroine who isn’t drop-dead gorgeous, rich, and possessed by the perfect man. Meet slightly overweight, frizzy-headed, single Jonna Lightfoot McLaughlin, religion reporter for the Denver Dispatch. Sister to Matthew, Mark and Luke, located in the mile high city of Denver, Colorado, Jonna is seeking a warm, funny, inspirational story - and she is certain the story is out there… somewhere.

What she does find is the seedy underbelly of religion, a man with a God complex, evasive Buddhists Monks whose temple has burned to the ground, and a minister who misuses his authority as a representative of God. But she can do nothing about any of it if she can’t prove it.

Through her investigation, Jonna meets extremely handsome Terry Choyce, the director of a community center. She daydreams about him and can’t seem to quite get through interviewing him. Other than her many visits to the center, Jonna makes no advances on Mr. Choyce, though she finds him to be intoxicating.

With the help of her big brother, Matt, her supportive editor, Skip, her savvy fellow-chocoholic colleague, Hannah, and friend/neighbor Ms. Rodriquez, she may break the biggest story of the year and find some of that inspiration after all.

Jo Kadlacek writes with a style that is comfortable to the reader, endearing of her characters, and that progresses at a good steady pace. A Mile from Sunday is the first installment of the Lightfoot trilogy, an honest, enlightening Christian- themed storyline. Jonna Lightfoot McLaughlin is a character worth journeying on with.



Originally published on Curled Up With A Good Book at www.curledup.com. © Brenda A. Snodgrass, 2007

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