Help Carry the Light Forward!

Join the Lightbearer’s Launch Team

Why This Matters
Fresh Baked Lies doesn’t just entertain—it illuminates and encourages hearts to choose forgiveness over bitterness. Read the synopsis of Fresh Baked Lies, below. If you’d still like to join the launch team, you would be asked to…

  1. During the “soft” launch period, download the e-book on amazon at the special promotional rate of 99 cents, and write an honest Amazon review.

  2. Share the launch opportunity with a friend, so they can carry the light, too.

  3. If you like the book, post a recommendation on your social media pages and share with friends and family.

  4. Pray that Fresh Baked Lies lands in the hands of those struggling with forgiveness and pray for the reader, too.

I’ll send you everything you need—simple, clear guidance to help carry this story into the world.

To join, click HERE and comment, “I want to join the launch team,” along with your email, and I’ll send you instructions.

Benefits of being on the launch team

I’ll thank those on the Lightbearer Launch Team, who fulfill the goals, with a few meaningful gifts—small ways of showing my gratitude for walking alongside this story.

  1. Signed paperback copy including a Lightbearer bookmark with a quote from Fresh Baked Lies, and a thank you note.

  2. Greatly reduced hardcover pricing when it comes out.

  3. Private Facebook Group for The Lightbearer Launch Team.

  4. An exclusive behind the scenes and epilogue PDF just for the Lightbearer Launch Team!

  5. Free Lightbearer “Elpis” necklace… a symbol of the Elpis given to Rosalie from Buck in Fresh Baked Lies. $19 value.

Synopsis

Fresh Baked Lies is a Christian Magical Realism novel set in 1965, in the small, Mississippi town of Grimly, where charm runs thick, and secrets quietly shape who holds the power.

Seventeen-year-old Rosalie Picotee has always felt like an outsider in Grimly—a town that smiles sweetly but has never known what to do with a girl like her. Raised by her faith-filled mother, Rosalie longs to escape the towns judgment and quiet cruelty that hides behind the town’s Sunday best. What she doesn’t know is that Grimly is bound by a darkness sealed years earlier by Ornella Dearie, Grimly’s most powerful women.

When Rosalie falls in love William Dearie, Ornella’s son, Ornella is determined to protect her power and bury the truth, and will stop at nothing to keep them apart.

As Rosalie begins to uncover Grimly’s hidden history, she learns that the town’s darkness is not just a supernatural presence—it lives in hearts hardened by fear, control, and unforgiveness.

Guided by quiet signs of divine intervention and moments of grace that defy logic, Rosalie comes face-to-face with the true nature of the darkness and her own unexpected role in freeing the town from it’s control. The answer is not confrontation or vengeance, but forgiveness.

In choosing to forgive the woman who caused her so much pain, Rosalie opens the door not only to the town’s healing, but to Ornella’s redemption as well. Fresh Baked Lies is a story about the power of grace to redeem what bitterness destroys, and the quiet, miraculous way God’s light moves through ordinary lives to undo the darkness.