Faith's Genesis - Withrow, Susan

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Résumé :
In 1972, prior to his deployment to serve in the Vietnam War, Jonathan Baker met and married Juliana Radcliffe. He had not known that she was the heir apparent to the throne of Liechtenstein. It was only upon his return stateside, and the birth of their daughter, Catherine, conceived prior to his deployment, that he learned the truth. Not long after Catherine's arrival, the couple would welcome a son, Trevor. Jon had never imagined that loving Juliana could put him and their family in clear, imminent danger until a political threat emerged, requiring their imminent, professional, extraction from Liechtenstein, by the intelligence team known as Team Willow. After the extraction of their family, the couple mutually decided to separate with Jon receiving full custody of the children. Upon receiving custody, he moved the family from Wyoming to Los Angeles where his mother lived. They would raise the children the best they could, mutually deciding to keep their past as royals hidden, giving them the best possible chance of a normal, non-royal, existence. They both hoped to never have to expose the children to the past destined to find them once they reached the age of proper ascension. Neither could have ever imagined how all their lives were irrevocably intertwined with the throne from which Jonathan had kept them safely hidden. Hidden truths emerge, slowly, about unrivaled love, profound secrets, prophetic revelations, and startling discoveries, igniting the spark for God's catalyst in their lives. God's catalyst comes when disturbing secrets arise from Catherine's clandestine life emerge. However, Catherine isn't the only one who holds secrets of life with the Swiss-based intelligence team, Team Cocktail. Team Cocktail, a squadron of younger intelligence extraction expert assets, are famously known globally, but they are elusive, their identities unknown, and they are unrivaled in their effectiveness at what they do. They are supervised by a member of the United Nations out of Geneva who oversees affairs of intelligence between Switzerland and Liechtenstein, whom, Jonathan and his mother know far too well. A fated intelligence assignment gone wrong, for Catherine and her professional partner, provides the the genesis of faith needed to ignite God's catalyst to correct the egregious injustice that was done to the family, and Liechtenstein, at the hands of Queen Selma - Juliana's grandmother- Catherine's great grandmother. As Catherine tries to move on, upon her retirement from Team Cocktail, and then off the path God sends her upon; several, political assassination attempts upon her, her immediate family, as well as upon those she loves, occur. By the grace of God and her experience as the asset formally known as Tequila Sunrise survives; however, these events shape her next moves. The roots of her journey to the throne take flight due to the spiritual gifts of others. Will Catherine be the genesis of faith needed to correct the egregious injustice brought to the family and Liechtenstein at the hands of her great-grandmother Queen Selma? Or must she first bring healing to her family before her next steps?