About the Book
Book: Touch of Innocence
Author: Robin Patchen
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release date: January 25, 2022
How can she save the little girl next door from being exploited if nobody believes her?
Grace used to try to save people, but that was before she realized how powerless she is. Now, she avoids emotional ties, working from her secluded cabin, content with her aloneness. When eight-year-old Lily starts hanging around, Grace enjoys her company but carefully keeps her distance—until she discovers the girl is being exploited. Little though she wants to, she must get involved, even if it means risking her own safety to secure Lily’s.
Andrew can’t help but be drawn to his new neighbor and her beautiful foster child. When he learns about Lily’s disturbing history, he offers to help Grace prove her suspicions about the girl’s father. But the more they learn, the more puzzling Lily’s history seems. They work together to unravel the mystery, determined to ensure Lily ends up with a family who loves her.
But Lily’s father isn’t giving up his muse—or his obsession—that easily. He believes Lily is rightfully his, and he’ll do anything to get her back.
Don’t miss this thrilling page-turner, the latest in the addictive Coventry Saga.
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About the Author
More from Robin
I love everyman-hero stories.
I know detectives and FBI agents and other law enforcement officers are fighting crime and solving mysteries all the time, but I love stories where regular folks—the kind who live next door and work in supermarkets or sell insurance—suddenly find themselves in the middle of a mystery—one only they can solve.
Maybe it’s my own longing for adventure (while living a life that consists largely of sitting in my office wearing yoga pants and tapping away on a keyboard) that leads me to write these kinds of stories
Touch of Innocence has that everyman… er, woman character, a reclusive former child therapist who wants nothing more than to be left alone. The problem is, Grace has a gift (which she calls a curse) that enables her to “see” that her eight-year-old neighbor, Lily, is being exploited by her child-pornographer father. But since Grace doesn’t have any proof, only the impressions she received when she touched the child’s palm, the police don’t do anything to rescue little Lily.
So Grace takes matters into her own hands.
As the villain so aptly puts it, she “blows up her entire life for the sake of a girl she barely knows.”
And that all happens in the first chapter. Then it gets really interesting.
There’s so much talk in the world about doing things for the greater good, for the benefit of the many, not the few, but that wasn’t Jesus’s way, was it?
Jesus didn’t die for the collective good. He died for you and me. He left the ninety-nine to seek out the one.
In a way, Touch of Innocence asks if one forgotten little girl is worth the cost of the heroine’s security, maybe even her life?
What is the value of one life, and how much are we as believers willing to sacrifice to save?
I think it’s a question worth exploring.
A little FYI about the book: I was very careful not to have any explicit scenes. Though the reader gets the sense of what Lily’s been through, there are no descriptions or images you’ll wish you hadn’t seen. I did my very best in this story to highlight a terrible thing that’s happening all over the world while at the same time honoring my readers and, above all, the Lord.
My Thoughts
Touch of Innocence is part of the Coventry Saga series that is written by Robin Patchen.
I have not read all the books in the series. However you can read them all as stand alones.
One of the things about this author is she always writes such action packed suspenseful stories that leave you guessing until the last moment. The book deals with sensitive subjects but the way the author deals with it is full of grace and tact.
The characters are well written. Grace used to love to save and help people. Now she holds everyone at a distance. When her young neighbor starts visiting Grace, she notices something off about the girl. However no one will listen. Andrew is drawn to the two of them and is the only person who believes Grace. Can they figure out out before something happens that can’t be fixed?
I received a copy of this book through the Celebrate Lit blogging program, all thoughts are my own.
Blog Stops
Book Reviews From an Avid Reader, March 23
Blogging With Carol, March 23
Debbie’s Dusty Deliberations, March 24
Texas Book-aholic, March 25
Inklings and notions, March 26
For Him and My Family, March 27
Betti Mace, March 28
Spoken from the Heart, March 29
deb’s Book Review, March 29
Locks, Hooks and Books, March 30
Mary Hake, March 30
Maureen’s Musings, March 31
Ashley’s Clean Book Reviews, April 1
Because I said so — and other adventures in Parenting, April 2
Blossoms and Blessings, April 3
Livin’ Lit, April 3
Truth and Grace Homeschool Academy, April 4
Simple Harvest Reads, April 5 (Guest Review from Mindy Houng)
Giveaway
To celebrate her tour, Robin is giving away the grand prize package of Convenient Lies, book 1 in the Nutfield Saga, and Glimmer in the Darkness, book 1 in the Coventry Saga, along with a coffee mug!!
Be sure to comment on the blog stops for nine extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter.
https://promosimple.com/ps/1bc9a/touch-of-innocence-celebration-tour-giveaway
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on Touch of Innocence, this sounds like a good book and series and I am looking forward to reading all of the stories
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