A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR
I hope you enjoyed Tiff’s story. Beauty from Ashes is actually a major revamp of the very first novel I ever completed but never published. I began it one night when my son Silas was about nine months old and in the hospital after a birth event similar to baby Natalie’s.
I usually take this space to thank everyone who helped me get my book published, but this time I want to start by thanking God for saving my son, who we were told would be no more than a vegetable if he survived at all. (Spoiler alert: Silas is now a healthy, happy, and intelligent almost ten-year-old boy who astounds me with his humor, positive outlook, photographic memory, musical genius, and so much more.) You can read Silas’s full story in my memoir, A Boy Named Silas. I feel like this acknowle
