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Tracy Groot

Tracy Groot

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Tracy began her writing career at age 8 by starting stories but never finishing them. She finished them only under duress for class assignments. After college she landed a job writing radio commercials, did that for a year, quit to have a baby and finally got back into the kind of writing she really wanted to do: books. Tracy lives near Grand Rapids, Michigan, with husband Jack, their sons, Evan, Grayson, and Riley, and a manipulative Jack Russell named Murphy.
Tracy Groot: Rahab’s Legacy

Tracy Groot: Rahab’s Legacy

(June 2012)
Rel Mollet
Christy Award winner Tracy Groot returns with a World War II novel based on the Biblical story of Rahab, Flame of Resistance (Tyndale House). Inspiration struck Tracy as she was reading a number of books on the conflict. “One of them was Stephen Ambrose’s Pegasus Bridge, the story of the spearhead action of D-Day, as fought by the British 6th Airborne Division. In it, he mentioned a brothel in the little French town of Benouville, where the battle was fought. That’s all it took, that one little mention. I thought, “Hey ... I wonder if there was a French prostitute sympathetic to the Allied Cause ...”
 

 

 

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