Tessa (From Fear to Faith) (25 page)
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Authors: Melissa Wiltrout
Resources
If you have suffered abuse and would like help or counseling, here are a few resources to get you started.
National Child Abuse Hotline (ChildHelp USA)
1-800-422-4453
http://www.childhelp.org/pages/hotline-home
Provides crisis intervention, information, literature, and referrals to other resources. Calls are anonymous and confidential.
Christian Survivors
Provides support forums and links to resources for survivors of all types of abuse.
Christian books dedicated to healing the wounds in the heart:
For women:
Captivating
by John and Stasi Eldredge
For men:
Wild at Heart
by John Eldredge
Connect with the authors at
http://www.ransomedheart.com
About the Author
Melissa Wiltrout lives in west-central Wisconsin with her two dogs, an energetic terrier named Daisy and a Sheltie named Chester. During the summer months she keeps busy at the family nursery and landscaping business. Writing is her favorite activity, but she also enjoys relaxing with a good book, playing guitar, breeding goldfish, and gardening.
Connect with Melissa
Blogspot:
www.mychroniclesofhope.blogspot.com
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/catscratcher29
Review this book on Amazon:
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Acknowledgements
First of all, thank you to Mom and Dad for putting up with the inconveniences of living with a writer. Thanks for believing in me, even when you couldn’t fathom my compulsion to rewrite and re-edit everything
ad nauseam.
Thanks for listening, critiquing, and encouraging me.
Thank you to my critique group partners at Western Wisconsin Christian Writers Guild for teaching me to sharpen my writing. I’d still be muddling around on lined paper without that!
Thank you to the talented people at Life Sentence Publishing for turning my manuscript into a book. I especially wish to thank Sheila for patiently answering my endless barrage of punctuation questions.
Most of all, I want to thank my Savior, Jesus, who wrote the true redemption story and signed it in His own blood. My story is but a dim echo of the one He wrote. Thank you, Lord, for your gifts of inspiration, imagination, and language!
www.lifesentencepublishing.com
TESSA – Melissa Wiltrout
Copyright © 2013
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Scripture quotations taken from the New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation
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First edition published 2013
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Cover Designer: Amber Burger
Editor: Sheila Wilkinson
