My blog has been happily ambushed by Rachel McMillan and her penchant for intelligent and credible heroes. Jaime Jo Wright graciously agreed to whip up a character spotlight at Rachel’s request, featuring the intriguing Jacobus Corbin from her latest release, The Reckoning at Gossamer Pond. I hope you enjoy meeting Jacobus and will come back next week for Jaime’s other feature and giveaway!

By the way, dear readers, if like Rachel you have a burning desire to shine the spotlight on any characters in a book you have read, contact me and I’ll do my best to make it happen!

It’s over to Jaime and Jacobus now!

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Jacobus Corbin

Physical Stats

Height: 6’1

Hair colour & style: Light brown, curly and a bit haphazard for a preacher

Eye colour: grayish

Dress sense: Like a preacher. Trousers, pressed shirt and jack with a tie. Nothing fancy or untoward.

Resembles…

Benedict Cumberbatch

Can’t live without…

the marriage of reason and faith

Strengths

Forthright, able to assess a situation by mere observation, intuitive and discerning

Vulnerabilities

He has a temper, and is quite partial to Miss Libby Sheffield, though he’d probably be more apt to lecture her on eternal security than make any affectionate pronouncements.

Passions

Passionate about his faith and about the true nature of God the empowers each individual to full experience grace as a gift versus something cast freely into the air as confetti, or withheld like a fine steak to a dog.

What book or movie would they recommend?

Scripture would be the proper use of one’s time, although he has been known to spend a few stolen moments reading the The House of Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Movies are a waste of mankind’s God-given abilities and really, must one muddle the mind with flashes of light and imaginary situations that only increase a persons’ anxiety? There is nothing healthy about it.

Your inspiration for the character

Jacobus is a mix of Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock Holmes meets the driest more boring preacher you could imagine meets one of those good boys who has a really dangerous streak deep inside.

Background to the story

The background to this story really did revolve around twin evangelists who came to the Wisconsin area in the late 1800’s and really rabble-roused. They left such mixed emotions in their wake, and yet, they were also unafraid to call out the sinner. I enjoyed using them for a spring board to create Jacobus and his brother Jedidiah Corbin. I wanted to have the proverbial Christian stereotype in Jedidiah—legalistic, judgmental, narrow-minded, and hard core—versus what I believe Christ intended a Believer to be in Jacobus—human, saved by grace, seeking to know the truth of Who God is, not justifying sin, but neither condemning mankind for that sin.

Thanks Jaime, on behalf of Rachel McMillan and myself 😉 Stay tuned for another feature soon from Jaime with a giveaway!

For over a century, the town of Gossamer Grove has thrived on its charm and midwestern values, but Annalise Forsythe knows painful secrets, including her own, hover just beneath the pleasant faade. When a man is found dead in his run-down trailer home, Annalise inherits the trailer, along with the pictures, vintage obituaries, and old revival posters covering its walls. As she sorts through the collection, she’s wholly unprepared for the ramifications of the dark and deadly secrets she’ll uncover.

A century earlier, Gossamer Grove has been stirred into chaos by the arrival of controversial and charismatic twin revivalists. The chaos takes a murderous turn when Libby Sheffield, working at her father’s newspaper, receives an obituary for a reputable church deacon hours before his death. As she works with the deacon’s son to unravel the mystery behind the crime, it becomes undeniably clear that a reckoning has come to town–but it isn’t until another obituary arrives that they realize the true depths of the danger they’ve waded into.

Two women, separated by a hundred years, must uncover the secrets within the borders of their own town before it’s too late and they lose their future–or their very souls.

Jaime Jo Wright is the author of the acclaimed novel The House on Foster Hill. She’s also the Publishers Weekly and ECPA bestselling author of two novellas. Jaime works as a human resources director in Wisconsin, where she lives with her husband and two children. To learn more, visit jaimewrightbooks.com.

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