Escape to Morning, Team Hope Series #2

By Susan May Warren

Description:

Book two in the Team Hope series by Susan May Warren, the name to watch in romantic suspense. In Escape to Morning, Homeland Security Agent Will Masterson crosses paths with Search and Rescue worker Dannette Lundeen. Will is working undercover to find and neutralize a terrorist organization threatening U.S. security. Dannette is searching for a missing girl, who turns out to be the key to the terrorists. As Will and Dannette put their lives on the line, they find their hearts drawn to one another. Only as they trust God and each other can they find a way to escape to morning.

Why the author wrote this book:

Sometimes, don’t you just want to go to bed early? Climb beneath the warm sheets, pull the flannel blanket over your head and pray that tomorrow might be…brighter?

It’s been a long day. The morning started out bleak, the sky a slate gray, the temperature hovering at a breath-stealing twenty below and a nasty wind picking at the cracks around my windows. It should have been a day for hot cocoa, a good book and the electric blanket on high.

Except, across the hall, one child is fighting the flu, while another is downstairs struggling with a home school creative writing assignment. Laundry calls my name from the basement, and I’m pretty sure someone is going to want dinner in a couple hours. Another child has a school report due (why do they always wait until the night before?), and the last needs help cleaning the bunny cage.

Oh, and I think I might have been trying to write a book in there somewhere.

Is 4:00pm too early to retire for the day?

The theme verse for Escape to Morning comes from Lamentations 3:22-24: “Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each day. I say to myself, "The LORD is my inheritance; therefore, I will hope in him!”

I need God’s mercies to be fresh each morning if I’m going to face my day, because, frankly, life is overwhelming, and if I think too far ahead I won’t get out of bed at all.

I love Will and Dani – two people who are just trying to make it through life, one day at a time. Dannette is a heroine I understand. Driven to do a job well, she was afraid to trust God too much with her life. Because, well, what if He let her down? What if He wasn’t there when life turned dark, when she felt at the end of her herself? And Will – he’s just a guy trying to figure out what it means to be a man of God.

As I began to study Lamentations, the word “inheritance” (or portion, in KJV), stood out to me. It’s used in many verses, and means not only reward, but also sustainer, redeemer, rescuer…basically, Everything. Or Enough.

We hope in God because He is enough. Enough wisdom. Enough strength. Enough forgiveness. Enough Grace. Enough.

Flee the Night was about being freed from mistakes and dark pasts into hope. Escape to Morning is about walking toward that hope, one day at a time in faith, expecting God’s mercies anew each morning and trusting Him to be enough for that day.

The Christian life is a journey. One day at a time, sometimes one hour at a time. And some days are successful – healthy kids and word counts reached. But others, well, they’re days of slogging through until bedtime. Through each, however, we can expect God to be our portion, our sustainer. And finally, our reward.

Thank you for reading Escape to Morning. I pray that Will and Dani’s journey encouraged you on your own. And may you find God to be enough.