The Most Happy Reader: Jamie Blair

leap of faith

by Jamie Blair

Today The Most Happy Reader welcomes Jamie Blair and offers her our little piece of Cyberspace up for a guest post...

The Teen Pregnancy Book That’s Not

Guest Post: Jamie Blair

A handful of times over the past couple weeks, I’ve spotted Leap Of Faith being called a teen pregnancy book. The funny part of this to me is that the teen, Faith, in my book is never really pregnant. But, she does pretend that the baby, who is actually her newborn sister, is her own baby and the situation she gets herself into does make her a teen mom.

Faith, having grown up with an addict for a mom, more often than not with no food in the house, knows that her baby sister is in for an even worst childhood than she had. What starts in Faith’s mind as getting back at her mom turns into an enormous sacrifice as she takes the baby and goes on the run.

Taking care of a newborn isn’t glorified in Leap of Faith and that’s not because as the author I wanted to make the book a preachy, issue book. I wrote it for entertainment, not as a warning to readers. Having a newborn is portrayed as touch because it really is. Having a newborn is insanely hard. Anyone taking on the task of raising a baby needs a support system, and this is where Leap Of Faith gets tricky.

Faith not only finds her support system, but she finds the family she’s never had and always wanted. But, in the back of her mind, she knows her time there is limited. She’s told so many lies, it has to come to an end somehow.

When it all does come crashing down, Faith has a second sacrifice to make. She’s grown to love the family—and the boy—who have taken her and her baby in. But, in order to keep them from being implemented in any legal action Faith might face for kidnapping the baby, she knows she has to leave the perfect life she’s found behind.

Leap Of Faith isn’t a teen pregnancy book. It’s a book about sacrifice, love, family and hope.

More about Jamie...

AUTHOR BIO:

Jamie Blair spent most of her teen years choreographing moves for her dance team routines, kissing boys on the couch after her mom went to bed, and pondering the mood enhancement qualities of Lemon Heads when consumed with Diet Coke. Writing under Kelli Maine, she’s the USA Today bestselling author of Taken. Leap of Faith is her debut New Adult novel.

Author links:

Website: http://jamieblairauthor.blogspot.ca/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JamieMBlair

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5418337.Jamie_Blair

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jamie-M-Blair/280042602029930

So after a two fun day run here at The Most Happy Reader Jamie is leaving us with a extra treat: another giveaway! Best thing is that this giveaway is only for the followers and readers of The Most Happy Reader. The prize up for grabs is a swag pack (signed postcard and Leap of Faith guitar pick).

I'm sorry but this giveaway is for US Residents only!

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Also, pop over to yesterday's post and enter for some more cool prizes!
Here's the link to that giveaway: http://themosthappyreader.blogspot.com/2013/10/leap-of-faith-by-jamie-blair-book-blitz.html

Leap of Faith

by Jamie Blair

Welcome to, Jamie Blair, author of Leap of Faith, To the Most Happy Reader.

Today, let us welcome Jamie and let her tell you some things about her upcoming novel that I bet you aren't expecting.

Welcome Jamie, she's all yours!

THe Best place to start is with an excerpt from Leap of Faith:

Halfway to 356 Maple, a black pickup truck pulls into the driveway. Music blares from the open windows. Chris’s hair blows around in the breeze.

My heart jumps to life.

How have I become so hooked on a guy I met yesterday? But watching him park his truck and hop out, I know how. Nobody’s ever done half as much for me, and he doesn’t even know me. He’s a good person, and I haven’t known many of those.

On his way to the front door, he stops when he spots us. “Hey!” His smile’s genuine, and fills his whole face. He jogs across the yard to meet us.

After seeing his room, I half-expect him to be wearing a superhero t-shirt, but there’s none today, just a plain white t-shirt covered in dirt. He’s filthy. “All moved in?” he asks.

“Yeah.” I watch his tall frame moving toward me, his jeans shifting with each stride, his shirt hugging his chest. I stop the stroller as he reaches us. “I love the paint color and the privacy wall. Thanks.”

He bends down, leaning his head in the stroller. His fingers wrap around Addy’s arm. “You’re welcome. Listen, I’m really sorry about what happened. My dad can be…I don’t know what’s wrong with him sometimes. Do you need help moving anything in?”

I ignore the jab in the pit of my stomach at the mention of Chris’s dad. “No, we’re good. We don’t have much, so it wasn’t difficult.”

He unbuckles Addy and lifts her out of the stroller. “Is it okay if I carry her in?”

I cringe at the dirt on his shirt, but he’s already got her pressed against his chest. “Sure.” I can always give her a bath.

She turns her head toward his neck and snuggles into a ball. Somehow she feels what I do with him.

Safe.

Secure.

Home.