The Stars on Vita Felice Court
VAL BECKLEY IS FACING WHAT MANY TEENAGERS DO-a yearning to escape her small town in hopes of becoming something more. Feeling trapped in West Virginia, Val convinces herself that she has found the new start she’s looking for in the desert of suburban Mesa, Arizona, with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, also widely known as “the Mormons” or “LDS Church.” Discovering new meanings of home, love, and family, Val takes a journey that leads her to the most unexpected discoveries of all: what resides in her own heart, what creates a happy life, and where she truly belongs.
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Emerging author Emily H. Keefer has written for the Journal Newspaper in Martinsburg, West Virginia, as a local columnist and is currently one of their full-time staff reporters. She has published over 250 bylined articles and written several feature sections in Around the Panhandle Magazine and Country Connections/Jefferson Magazine. Her first published article detailed her experience in the famous town of Odessa, Texas, home of the book and film Friday Night Lights. Soon to receive her bachelor of arts in English and a minor in education from Shepherd University, Keefer belongs to Sigma Tau Delta, an international English honors society; and Kappa Delta Pi, an international honors society in education. Keefer is a lover of reading, adventuring, and enjoying her life with her husband, Tyler, her dog, and her family in the mountains and on the rivers of West Virginia. Keefer hopes to continue to write simply to relate and inspire.