hidden seeds, A NOVEL BY JESSICA BRODIE

CHRISTIAN WOMEN’S CONTEMPORARY FICTION

Betrayed and devastated, Natalie Motts is doing her best to make a fresh start in her hometown. But when her sister goes missing, does she have what it takes to dig deep and discover the truth before it’s too late?

After eleven years away from her proper Southern family and seemingly perfect upbringing in Dahlia, South Carolina, former Homecoming queen Natalie Motts has come home to nurse her wounds and start over. Reeling from the drunk driving accident that took the life of her fiancé, Tucker, and best friend, Stacey, Natalie’s also shattered by the devastating revelation uncovered the night of the accident—Tucker and Stacey were secretly in love.

Natalie is determined to work through her grief by opening an art shop, Sunstrokes, pouring all her savings and passion into it. Soon she reconnects with an old classmate, Finn McCafferty, who owns the coffee shop next door, and befriends her new employee, Laney Ricks, a newly Christian single mom just as determined at Natalie to start over.

Laney also has ghosts of her own that she’s hiding. After eight years under the yoke of human trafficking, she’s gathered the courage to do what it takes to leave “The Life” and save herself and her young daughter. Natalie and Laney start a shaky friendship and find healing and joy in their art.

But Natalie’s teenaged sister Hayley has started exhibiting troubling behavior, hiding texts and locking her phone. When Hayley goes missing and signs point to a local trafficking ring, Laney and Natalie team up to find Hayley before it’s too late.

They’re risking it all—including Laney’s new life. Will it be enough? 

Hidden Seeds is in the proposal phase being circulated to publishers by her agent, Bob Hostetler of The Steve Laube Agency.