Friday 56 #151 – Heaven Denied by Ken La Salle @KenLaSalle

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The Friday 56 is hosted by Freda’s Voice.The only rules are to grab a book (any book), turn to page 56 or 56% in your ereader and find any sentence or a few ( no spoilers) that grabs you and post it.

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I read Heaven Enough, Book I (see my review HERE) some time ago and loved it, so I am very excited to share the cover for Ken La Salle’s new sequel, Heaven Denied.

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MY 56 is the first paragraph, since I don’t have the book…yet.

In the remains of a bedroom down in the seaside town of Ocean Beach, California, a broken man bolted out of a nightmare and returned to his life.

(published in 2018)

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What would it be like to have heaven enough?

For just a few, brief days on the Pacific Crest Trail, Matt Murphy knew. He fell in love, faced his true self, and came to understand what was really important in life – until the woman he fell in love with died and his life was cast into the chaotic emptiness of grief. Within that emptiness, Matt lost his wealth, his job, and everything that helped his life make sense.

Matt believed he could accept that if it really was the price of true love… Until he learned that the woman he loved had already been married.

Where that left him and what it meant for the love he thought they shared, Matt couldn’t know. His only recourse would be to meet the man who had married his love and understand what that love had meant to him. How could he have lost her? How could he have pushed her aside? How could he have given her up when losing her broke so much of what was left of Matt’s heart?

Matt is going to have to find out. Even if it means blundering through another relationship, driving into a lake, just a bit of kidnapping, and possibly facing the kind of man he really is, was, and always will be.

The results of which could change Matt’s life forever…

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33 thoughts on “Friday 56 #151 – Heaven Denied by Ken La Salle @KenLaSalle”

    • So glad you like it, Ashley!
      And looking at page 56, it appears that Matt Murphy could use a nice weekend as well.
      The first line reads: Long story short: Matt was in no mood to think.

    • And thank you for saying so, Stormi. Heaven Enough was originally planned as a stand-alone novel, not the first in a series, but thanks to readers who loved the characters (and how much fun they were to write) I knew fairly quickly that we hadn’t seen the last of Matt Murphy’s struggles with love.

    • I hear you, Carole. And a terrible situation like that is only made worse by the way guys “deal” with grief. Fortunately, it also makes things a lot funnier. (At least, that’s the idea.)
      I hope you get a chance to read it!

    • Thanks, Laura. I hope you do, of course.
      The cover image was in my head for a long time. It represents a moment in the book that you can’t miss. And I was so happy that it worked!

  15. Wow Ken. So happy to see you sharing yourself…well, you know what I mean. LOL I love having you visit…and to everyone else, thanks so much for dropping by!

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