Relationships. Spouse. Friends. Parents. They all have an affect on your life. They make you the person you are. But what if your husband decides to leave with another woman? What if your best friend has some overbearing ways of running your life, without your permission? What if you don't really know who your parents are? These are the problems that drive C.D. Waddell to pray, asking God for help in Cheryl N. Warner's A Prayer for Distraction.

Have you ever heard the adage, "Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it?" C.D. finds out the hard way that it should apply to prayer. While she is trying to get over her obsessive attachment to her cheating ex-husband, she decides to take her mind off of him by finding her birth parents. She dearly loves the parents that raised her and never wants to hurt them but she finds the need to know where she came from and… what does "C.D." stand for anyway? What kind of name is that to give a three-year-old kid and then drop her off at a hospital, abandoning her? C.D. is driven to find out. Her adoptive father introduces her to a private detective, Mitch Everhart, a man who charges in and changes everything.

Mitch Everhart has had a bad marriage and can relate to C.D.'s pain. He is instantly attracted to the lady searching for her birth parents but he can't let her in on his own agenda for helping her out. What he's keeping from her could keep them apart if she finds out in the wrong way. He knows he'll have to come clean but not until all issues have been settled and it is safe to let C.D. know the truth.

A Prayer for Distraction was an emotional roller coaster. Having had the kind of husband C.D. had, it was almost unnerving to read some of the things her cold hearted ex was doing but Ms. Warner has penned a realistic situation all too often occurring in this day and age. I wanted to jump in and help C.D. I could have smacked a couple of the characters, too. The characters are easy to get wrapped up in and the story flowed from complication to complication until I was nearly ready to scream at some points. Frustrating in a good way.

A Prayer for Distraction is a busy story with questions and answers at every turn. A page turning adventure for any lover of romance, suspense, and life made whole through answered prayer.

Reviewed By MargeAnna Conrad
© February 2009