Hi, I'm Susie Larson. Thanks for listening to this podcast from Susie Larson Live.

It's only just a matter.

You're listening to an encore presentation of Susie Larson Lanz.

Welcome to Susie Larson Live, always honored to get to spend this time with you. In fact, I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day that hopefully inspire you in your faith walk, that deepen your understanding of God's Word, and that heightens your awareness of his very real presence in your life. Well, you've heard me say this plenty of times. I love to read.

And that's why this job is so good for me because I'm reading a good portion of a book every

single day, a different book, every single day. So during my off time, when I just read for me,

just for relaxation, I will almost always go to fiction. Well, New York Time

bestselling author Charles Martin joins me today to talk about his latest novel, The Recordkeeper.

This is a suspense novel. It's part of a series that centers around the parable of the lost

sheep and explores the topic of love and sacrifice from moving to captivity to freedom.

These are riveting stories of heroism and the power of love to

heal our wounds. I think we need that message today, don't you? Well, guess what? We have eight

copies of the record keeper. Again, it's the third in this series, but the way Charles writes,

these could easily be standalone novels. I will tell you, these are action-packed. There's, you know,

scenes of rescue and heroism,

which means you need drama and hardship, and it does explore human trafficking. So if that

kind of thing is hard for you, I feel like Charles does it with so much taste where you get a peek

into this really base crime against humanity without getting too much information to keep

you up at night.

But it's a reality, a terrible reality in our day.

And this is such an incredible series that just reminds you of how far Jesus goes to rescue us

and how each soul is of incredible worth.

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