Secrets in Bethlehem

"...a very well thought through novel...full of action and drama...it is one of the books you just have to finish reading in one sitting."

                 4 Stars                                            ~Reader's Favorite~

There are laws banning human cloning for a reason A five year old boy is catapulted into the middle of a conspiracy he's too young to understand and finds himself dependent on two strangers for his very survival. Travis Brody is a man with a tortured past and pugnacious disposition, Janey Carmichael is a woman steeped in disillusionment and poverty but has never lost the hope for the happy ever after ending she had dreamed about since first setting eyes on Travis. These two lost souls take it upon themselves to be guardians to this very special little boy. Even if protecting him means forfeiting their own lives.

Travis Brody is a man with a tortured past who has built a wall of arrogance, antagonism and animosity between himself and the world. Janey Carmichael is a young woman living a life besieged with disappointment and poverty, but has never lost hope for the happy ever after ending with the man she fell in love with at first sight. Jess Messenger is a terrified little boy, alone, far from home and witness to the vicious murder of Joseph, his guardian. As the center of a conspiracy he’s too young to understand, Jess holds the secret that can bring down The Committee: a covert society that has been in power for over one hundred and fifty years. Now it is up to Travis and Janey to protect Jesse from the assassins the chairman of The Committee has set on the trail of this very special little boy. Will Travis and Janey be able to keep Jesse out of the clutches of a manic with a God complex? Can Janey and Jesse break through the barriers Travis has built before it’s too late? The first surviving human clone is not the secret…Where the DNA came from to clone him, is.

Kate Porter has had one true passion, even as a young girl: writing. Poetry and short stories were her pleasure and her escape while growing up on a small farm approximately fifty miles south of Indianapolis. From her first short story printed in her high school newspaper at the age of fifteen, until the publication of her debut novel, SECRETS IN BETHLEHEM, in the summer of 2012 she has dreamed of being an author. As a two time winner of the Indie Book of the Day award, Kate has explored different genres in her writing career and has an eclectic taste in her own reading material. She has studied fiction writing at Greenville Tech, in Greenville, SC and traveled to Georgia for a writing workshop with her best friend. Kate has been profiled in her hometown newspaper, in Spencer, Indiana and in 2013, she was featured in WOMAN'S DAY magazine and again in the Greenville News. In September 2013. she held her first author event at a local book store in Greenville.