Godsend von Barry Knister

Is destiny your friend or your enemy? A year after Pulitzer journalist Brenda Contay killed a killer, she's convinced what she did has destined her to a life of unhappiness. Determined to run away from her past, and the man she loves, Brenda meets her next story in Naples, Florida. James Rivera is smart, charming, and deadly. He believes he's destiny's child and that fate is why he's getting rich by helping people who want to die. Even when they change their minds. Brenda's search for the story behind James Rivera will lead her back to her troubled past, and to a life-changing lesson: destiny isn't waiting for us. It's what we make it.

After a career of college teaching, Barry Knister returned to writing fiction. The Dating Service, his first novel, was published by Berkley. He's written four other novels, including Just Bill (releasing 2017), The Anything Goes Girl, Deep North, and Godsend. Knister is the past secretary of Detroit Working Writers, and the former director of the Cranbrook Summer Writers Conference. He has published travel and humor in local markets, and writes an occasional blog/column for the Naples (Florida) Daily News. He lives in Michigan with his wife Barbara, and their Aussie shepherd, Skylar.