Everybody’s Daughter
Michael John Sullivan
Would you give up
your own lifetime of happiness for someone else?
In his exciting new novel Michael John Sullivan leads
readers on a new adventure as he confronts questions of trust and forgiveness.
Readers will be intrigued as they follow main character Michael Stewart
as he travels back in time through a mysterious tunnel in an old church where
he volunteers with his daughter. Michael again finds himself in biblical
time’s ─when the Romans
ruled with brutal violence and Jesus preached his peaceful message
His teenage daughter
Elizabeth soon follows Michael through the tunnel; however she is surprised to
discover that her father is nowhere to be found. Little does she know
that Michael has returned safely to the present, leaving her to battle a
vicious Roman soldier.
Separated by centuries, Michael is trapped to fight his
own battles in the present day. Elizabeth’s disappearance and the
discovery of her blood in his car ignite a rush of judgment as the FBI focuses
on him as a person of interest. Michael’s only hope for saving his daughter
rests in the hands of his best friend, a local pastor with secrets of his own,
and a mysterious old journal containing tales of miracles within the walls of
the old church itself.
Thrilling and
suspenseful, Everybody’s
Daughter takes readers on a miraculous journey of their own, where
salvation can be found in acts of sacrifice and hope remains forever eternal
through the passage of a tunnel.
This is the 2nd in the series by
Michael John Sullivan, though not necessary to read the first Necessary Heartbreak I feel it would
have been helpful to me. This was a beautiful story that shifted between
current time and the time of Jesus. It involved time travel and history that
kept you turning the pages. I am not typically a time travel sort of reader,
but this one was basic enough for the skeptics. It has got to be difficult to
include Jesus as a character in a novel, but Michael does it well. This book is
a cliff hanger setting up for the next in the series.
About Michael Sullivan:
Michael John Sullivan graduated from St. John's University with a
communications degree and a promising future in the field of journalism after
working for the official school paper the previous two years. Six months later,
he found himself washing his hair in a toilet at the same university as he
prepared for a job interview. He was homeless at the age of 23 after first
watching his mother ─ his protector in a dysfunctional family ─ die from cancer. A
year later his father asked him to leave. Riding a New York City subway train
at night, his only companion was a green plastic bag of belongings. During
these bleak days he began writing his most reflective and emotional childhood
and adult memories now featured in two of his novels.
On a bitterly cold
New Year's Eve that year, Sullivan intentionally hid under a pew in the back of
a church to stay warm for the night. After the doors were locked, he lay near a
makeshift manger, writing and talking to the baby Jesus. It was a
cathartic experience, one that would continue to resonate with him years later.
He was eventually rescued by an aunt and uncle. After spending much
of the past two decades raising their daughters while working at home, Sullivan
returned to his notes in 2007 and began writing Necessary Heartbreak: A
Novel of Faith and Forgiveness. It was published by Simon & Schuster's
Gallery Books imprint in April 2010. The Library Journal named Necessary
Heartbreak as one of the year's best in Christian fiction for 2010.
He recently finished the
sequel, Everybody's Daughter, featuring more memories from his young adult
life, including the day he walked to Forest Park as he contemplated taking his
own life. Only the strains of a song prevented him from doing the unthinkable.
Sullivan lives with his family in New York. He is a nominated board member
for the Long Island Coalition of the Homeless.
I received a copy of this book from B& B
Media in exchange for an honest review.
More information on this series can be found at www.MichaelJohnSullivan.com

This sounds like a really great read. My mom would love this. It sounds like a Lifetime movie.
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Thank you so much for your kind review. I'm so happy you enjoyed my second novel.
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