The Ties That Loose: Author Guest Post + Giveaway

 

Welcome to the Blog + Review Tour for The Ties That Loose by Felicia Ferguson, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!

About the Book

Title: The Ties That Loose 
Author: Felicia Ferguson 
Publisher: Salt & Light Publishing 
Release Date: May 23, 2025 
Genre: military romantic suspense / women's fiction

Can you really trust God when life plummets out of your control? 

While clearing out her mother’s estate, Dani Robicheau Kirkland makes a shocking discovery: a box containing pieces of her parents’ life hidden away after her father was declared Killed in Action in the Vietnam War. Inside she finds her mother had once clung to faith and the desperate certainty her husband was alive before she spiraled into the devastated alcoholic Dani has known. 

Dani’s F-15 pilot husband, Chris, chafes under his father’s expectations to live up to his granddad’s legacy as WWII pilot. While the Bosnian War rages, Chris is tasked with a clandestine mission: flying an unsanctioned diplomat into Bosnia. But when his plane goes down due to a bird strike, Chris is trapped behind enemy lines with little hope of rescue. 

Dani is terrified she’ll nosedive like her mother did, but still clings to hope and a certainty that Chris remains alive despite the Air Force’s doubts. As she searches for a way to bring Chris home and he strives to stay alive, they each battle their family histories desperate to find God’s future for them both. 

Family ties ensnare them. Can God loose their grip forever?

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About the Author

Felicia Ferguson achieved master’s degrees in Healthcare Administration and Speech-Language Pathology, but has written since childhood and dreamed of authoring books that teach and inspire others. An award-winning fiction and non-fiction freelance writer, she has published several devotions and sweet romance short stories. Her passion, however, is writing women’s fiction and romantic suspense with strong female characters who work through their traumas and tragedies using biblical principles and counseling techniques.

As a child, Felicia lived in Kansas, Texas, and Louisiana before her family settled on a horse and cattle farm in Kentucky. As an adult, she lived in Tennessee for two years and later spent ten years in the Florida panhandle soaking up the sand and sun. But then God moved her once again. This time out of the South and into the mountains of Colorado. When she’s not glued to her laptop, Felicia enjoys hiking, Bible studies with friends, and looking forward to the next story.

Connect with Felicia by visiting feliciafergusonauthor.com to follow her on social media and subscribe to email updates.

Author Guest Post

I’m a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, which is a group that promotes historic preservation, education and patriotism. At each meeting, committee chairs report on their activities or present educational programs. At one such meeting, the chair of the Armed Forces Committee spoke about MIA/POW bracelets that began during the Vietnam War. I had been born well after that war ended and the only military person in my family was my grandfather who served in the Navy during World War II. So I was fascinated by her report and the personal experience she and her family had with a bracelet for one particular missing soldier.  

The idea rolled around in my head and wouldn’t roll away. I wrote a fanfiction piece using the bracelet as a key plot device, thinking the writing muse would be satisfied. She wasn’t and the bracelet kept coming to mind. The characters I write all must confront some past psychological trauma or tragedy and wrestle with God as they work through their pain. Since this bracelet wouldn’t disappear, I worked through how it could be incorporated into a longer and publishable work.  

I began thinking about who would have had a bracelet made in their honor and started researching from there. That led to the family who would be impacted. Then the question became, what if the soldier’s missing-in-action report was wrong? What if he was actually dead? How would that impact his loved ones when they found out the truth? And when would they find out the truth?  

Thus, Dani’s backstory was born. But then she needed a trial to go through that would link to that family trauma, which led to the question: What if her own husband was shot down behind enemy lines? Oooh. This was getting interesting. But I soon bumped up against a problem. Most women’s fiction characters are in their thirties—at most early forties. The Vietnam War ended in 1975. For Dani to be in her thirties when her husband was shot down, the story would have to take place in the ’80s or ’90s. Thankfully, the US wasn’t actively at war during that time. But that sure put a damper on my story. I had to find a war for her husband. So I started reading and researching wars around the world that the US might be involved in as advisors or support. I found the US Air Force had participated in NATO’s Deny Flight air patrols during the Bosnian War.  

And what once was a simple idea became a full-fledged story.  

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Tour Giveaway

(1) winner will receive a That's So 90s Trivia Game, in honor of the book being set in the 1990s!

Full tour schedule linked below. The giveaway begins at midnight June 16, 2025 and will last through 11:59 PM EST on June 23, 2025. Winner will be notified within 2 weeks of close of the giveaway and given 48 hours to respond or risk forfeiture of prize. US only. Void where prohibited by law or logistics.

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