Susan's Books

Susan Marlene
Timeless Significance For Every Day

​“Sisters & Friends is a joyful celebration of faith, family, romance, and God's delight in all the little details.” ~ Laura Frantz, Christy Award-winning author of The Lacemaker
 
With highest praise for Sisters and Friends, this book will knock you over almost as quickly as a very large dog. So be ready for anything. Susan Marlene brings together all the right answers in some of the most unexpected places. This story is a journey of the heart, discovering what can be accomplished when you keep your chin up and find faith from within.  

~ Kate Jungwirth, co-author of the Mystery at Point Beach series

  
Moving back home with a critical, over-controlling mother, fostering a massive out-of-control puppy (when you hate dogs), doing a face plant in front of a man with molten green-brown eyes… In Sisters & Friends, Susan Marlene masterfully employs a technique used by all great writers—put your character in a bad place, then make it worse, and worse—to keep us turning pages. Susan’s debut novel will have you hurting, rooting for, and rejoicing with heroine Courtney MacDuff. 

~Becky Melby, author of more than 20 Christian fiction titles
 
“In Sisters and Friends, Susan Marlene skillfully weaves together the threads of lives and hearts to give us a tapestry of faith and family I did not want to let go. Beautifully written!”  

~Regina Scott, award-winning author of Nothing Short of Wondrous
 
Sisters love and fuss, embrace and argue, support and question. But above all they love!
 

~ DiAnn Mills, author of Long Walk Home eBook, Christy                                                                       Winner, Director- Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference
 
Susan Marlene’s debut novel, Sisters and Friends, is a story about relationships. Daughters, mothers, sisters, and friends harbor tender feelings, intricate, yet at the same time volatile. Susan Marlene’s characters are true to life and grow dear to the heart. Unexpected twists and turns keep the pages turning. The heroine’s love-hate relationship with her Leonberger dog kept me smiling—and wondering what would happen next. Even the hero’s intentions kept me guessing. I hoped for future possibilities, but was unsure until the story’s conclusion. Susan Marlene’s ability to weave beautiful descriptions coupled with emotion has me yearning for her next book.                                                                                                   
 ~Rebecca McLafferty, author of the debut novel, Intentional Heirs
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SISTERS & FRIENDS is available on Amazon -- eBook and paperback
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This book holds bite-sized, manageable tales—perfect for individuals on tight schedules.
The riveting characters—from both contemporary and historical periods—visit matchmaking,
see the unexplained, avoid strife, and move with bravery they didn’t know they possessed.
If you wish to read stories based on actual happenings and others of pure fiction that will powerfully tug at your emotions, this is the collection of stories for you. Heroines and heroes
will draw you into the wonder, humor, and seriousness of their world. They just may invite
you to think and dream while challenging you to face difficulties on a whole new level.

Special Price of $0.99
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These short stories are offered on Kindle ​
https://www.amazon.com/SHORT-SORIES-Some-Fanciful-True-ebook/dp/B08ZC5M17Y