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Writer's pictureLeigh Macfarlane

NaNo 2020

November 1, and here we go!


To most at Chambers High, Amy Callaghan and Jamila Shad seem like an odd couple. The thing is, Amy, whose father is a high profile defense attorney, knows what it feels like to be ostracized. So, with her dark skin and Muslim faith, does Jamila. Being outsiders forges a bond between these two, and at fourteen, they are best friends for life.

Then the bombing happens.

Jamila's family is targeted, and Jami is the only survivor -- and that only because she had left the family store to take a lunch break with Amy.

Twelve years later, Jamila is a social worker about to marry the love of her life, and Amy, now a famous photographer is coming home for the wedding. She could hardly expect that the rookie cop who held her back when she tried to wander into the still-burning wreckage of the Shad's store will end up back in her life. She would never dream that she'd want -- need -- to keep him there.


With themes of faith, love, acceptance, PTSD, enduring friendship, and the concept of love thy neighbor, Shutter's Eye is a story of love triumphing over hate, of acceptance beating out bigotry, of faith as a sustaining and motivating practice... and it is my NaNoWriMo project for 2020!




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