About the Book

Book: Road to Freedom

Author: Cheri Swalwell

Genre: Christian Woman’s Contemporary Fiction

Release date: October 5, 2021

Sometimes silence speaks louder than words.

Wynn and her best friend Addie have been inseparable since kindergarten. Growing up together in the same community, they shared activities, friends, and even the same job. But behind closed doors, their lives couldn’t be more different.

Zane has loved Wynn for four years. Yet Wynn is adamant she doesn’t need a boyfriend. After all, she will never get married. Ever. In an effort to uncover the why behind her ‘no,’ Zane discovers more than he expected.

When Wynn unlatches the door and allows Holly in as a mentor, will she learn trust is just like riding a bike and find the healing she so desperately needs?

Road to Freedom, Book 4 in The Redemption of Green Pines series continues to disclose the messiness of real life. Join Wynn and her friends as they discover how an encounter with God can bring freedom from fear, healing from pain, and the joy of belonging when we choose to let others into our lives, even, or especially, the messy parts.

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My Thoughts:

Road to Freedom continues the story of community and families in Green Pines, specifically around a group of friends who are now twenty something that went to youth group together.

Wynn does not go to the same church as her friends Zane, Owen, and Addie. They are all still close and work with Holly the youth pastor's wife. That is a little bit of the background, but this story really touches on abuses in family and even so called churches. Not necessarily physical, but the verbal and spiritual abuse that can happen.

I have been to several churches and I find they all worship God in their own ways. Now Wynn's church, if it can be called that, was not a loving place to be. Wynn's family was not a loving family. She was especially treated differently than her older brother and younger sister. Her mother was basically a slave to her father who got what he wanted when he wanted it or else. He believed he was on the moral high ground when his extracurricular activities and how he treated Wynn and her mother were examples against him.

Zane has been in love with Wynn for years. But Wynn is bound and determined that she will not marry as she sees all men being the same. Zane and their friends have some work cut out for them as they show Wynn a different kind of Christian and people then what she has seen and grew up in her family and church. Author Swalwell again takes an uncomfortable subject and peels back the layers to get to the truth and lovingly shows a new way to live.

I was provided a copy of this novel from the author. I was not required to post a positive review and all views and opinions are my own.

About the Author

Cheri Swalwell is a Christ follower who thoroughly enjoys her calling to be a wife, mother, writer and speaker, in that order. Cheri loves to encourage people through her fiction series and many nonfiction books including devotionals, Bible studies, and compilation books. For a full list of books visit www.cheriswalwell.com. If you want to sign up to her newsletter to stay updated on all the latest news, you will also receive a free gift as her way of saying thanks for joining! To read one of her many articles on life from a Christian perspective, visit her blog at www.cheriswalwell.com. She loves to interact with her readers, so send her an email at clSwalwell99@gmail.com. You can “like” her on Facebook as well here or join Heart Speaks with Cheri Swalwell, a private Facebook group where we encourage each other and share life together.

More from Cheri

The Redemption of Green Pines is a series about community. We first meet Wynn and her friends in Journey Back Home when they attended youth group. While Pastor Jace and Holly remain a constant presence throughout all six books, Road to Freedom takes us deeper into the lives of four friends – Wynn, Addie, Zane and Owen, who graduated from youth group and began working for Holly’s catering business. They also babysit the Cooper kids from time to time and have become part of the family.

Since the beginning when we were introduced to Wynn, she carried around a secret she wouldn’t share with anyone, not even her best friend. Road to Freedom is Wynn’s journey of truly discovering who she is as a Daughter of the King, and learning how good it feels to live in freedom instead of burdened by other’s choices.

I hope you enjoy getting to know Wynn and her friends as much as I have!