title: The Messenger
author: Lewis, Kimberly
description: ICU nurse Beth Jordan understands challenging situations and meets them head on.  Between a demanding work schedule, renovating her historical home,  helping her veteran brother through PTSD after combat in the Middle East, and resolving aspects of her traumatic childhood, her life is full- too full for additional complications.
  
  When Beth is involved in an accident resulting in a fatality, she is unwittingly pulled into events beyond her immediate understanding, shaking up her predictable existence.   Dramatic rescues are commonplace in her line of work, but the man she helps save turns out to be a rock star whose initial gratitude turns into romantic interest- and Beth isn’t sure she wants to draw the attention of an international celebrity.  Even if he is practically irresistible.
  
  Relief from financial strain comes in the form of two fellow veterans her brother sends to rent rooms from her.  One might say the timing is heaven-sent.  While the men get to work helping her refurbish the house, Beth can’t help wonder why she feels so secure on such a short acquaintance, when it isn’t her nature to trust so easily.  Then disturbing dreams of angels and demons begin to plague her.
  Tension builds as suppressed memories from her childhood resurface and coincidences occur that aren’t easily explained.  Beth discovers not only can she not escape events in her past, they might play a crucial role in her future.    As she realizes the men in her life are not who they seem to be, she is also faced with choices that catapult an ordinary woman into the potential for an extraordinary destiny in the ultimate struggle between good and evil.