Saving Evangeline by Nancee Cain
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Synopsis
Evangeline is the town pariah. Everyone knows she’s crazy and was responsible for the death of her last boyfriend. Even her mother left her and moved cross-country. Lonely and desperate, Evie decides to end her life.
Rogue angel Remiel longs to return to earth, but there’s just one problem. He tends to invite trouble and hasn’t been allowed back since Woodstock. The Boss sends him to save Evangeline, but there’s a catch: he can’t reveal his angelic nature, and he must complete the task as Father Remiel Blackson.
Forced together on a cross-country trip, a forbidden romance ignites and love unfolds. A host of heavenly messengers tries to intervene, but Remiel and Evangeline are headed on a collision course to disaster. Will his love save her, or will they both be lost forever?
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Teaser
“Don’t do it,” a deep male voice commands.
A whisper of a breeze caresses my cheek. With a frustrated sigh, I lower my foot and drag my gaze from the murky, dark water that beckons me with its siren’s song. Glaring at the unwelcome intruder, I dash the tears from my cheeks. He stands in the shadow, and all I can make out is that he’s tall with broad shoulders. Striding toward me, hands in his pockets, he starts whistling. The thought occurs to me I should be scared and run, but it’s as if I’m glued to the spot. As he comes into the light, I see he’s a priest. But he doesn’t look like any priest I’ve ever known. This guy is Hollywood gorgeous. Under the dim light, he appears almost incandescent and his emerald eyes seem lit from within. Their intensity burns a hole into my paper-thin bravado, which slips away and disappears like ashes in the wind.
Dammit, I’d just worked up the courage to follow through with my plan to leave this nightmare behind, and this stranger has interrupted, dragging me back to my personal hell on earth.
Lis’ Review Just finished this book and I’m smiling big right now. This is the feel good book of the year. I didn’t know what to expect, but irreverent humor and lovable wacky characters won me over from page one. How can you not love a fallen angel with a potty mouth?
Evangeline is a lost soul, depressed, self-tortured with guilt and ready to end it all. Remi (short for Remiel) is a bored angel, who can’t quite toe the line up in heaven, so God sends him to earth to help save Evangeline… as a priest. They meet on a bridge as she’s contemplating suicide. He tells her “Don’t do it.” Which means don’t jump but his reason for her not jumping? “I can’t swim.” I know, not very priestly, or very angelic either, but his flippant attitude and smart ass remarks win over Evangeline before she even knows what’s happening to her. They are a match for each other – she refers to her hometown priest as Father Asswipe. He refers to her as Crazy Girl. Both are heartfelt titles, and we soon realize that once she accepts his offer of a ride home off that bridge, we will be journeying with them on a wild ride.
The secondary characters we meet along the way are hilarious and portrayed perfectly. God as a golf-playing CEO reprimanding his wayward employee angel is perfect. Along the way we meet Mary and Martha, portrayed as two busy-body old ladies; St. Francis of Assissi portrayed as Franco, the convenience store owner who give Evangeline a mangy dog to care for; the angel Rafael, portrayed as a hitchhiking cowboy, and Mary Magdelene, portrayed as a trashy but sexy barfly. Each character has their unique qualities and each plays a part in keeping the two star-crossed lovers on the right path.
However, it’s Remi and Evie that we root for. As readers we want things to work out for them because their love for each other saves them both. It’s bittersweet when Evie finally finds out Remi’s true identity and I was a little disappointed with the way the story had to go, but not enough to want to change a thing. This book made me laugh out loud, cry tears of sadness and joy, and end up smiling like a … Crazy Girl. Lord knows if I had a guardian angel I would certainly want him to be just like Remi. The lessons he teaches Evangeline were not lost on me as the reader; it’s a mantra I try to live myself. And believe me, I will never look at another kids’ play area ball pit in the same way again.
Kudos to Nancee Cain on her debut novel. It’s definitely a 5-star, feel good, have fun and be irreverent read, and I am so looking forward to more inspired stories from this author.
Author Bio:Nancee Cain writes contemporary and paranormal romances with a serrated edge. In her stories she addresses some tough social issues, but always with a healthy dose of humor.
Her daytime hours are consumed by nursing in the never boring field of substance abuse. This is rather ironic since at age 22, she met her real-life hero in a bar. She swears the amount of alcohol she’d consumed had nothing to do with her boisterous proclamation she’d met her future husband. A year later, she married him.
Raised below the Mason-Dixon line, she dishes sarcasm like a Southern woman dishes blackberry cobbler, sweet and tart. She considers life too short not to laugh and too serious not to discuss. Her ultimate book hero will always be Atticus Finch.
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