Deborah Raney

Deborah Raney centers inspirational contemporary fiction on families confronting grief, change, and renewed purpose. Reason to Breathe opens the Chandler Sisters trilogy and centers on Phylicia, Joanna, and Britt after losing their mother, followed by their father's sudden engagement. A proposal to buy three cottages near Langhorne, Missouri, offers the sisters a shared business, while Quinn Mitchell's feelings for Phylicia complicate her effort to understand long-held family secrets. The 2018 novel is followed by Chasing Dreams and Finding Wings. Raney began her career with A Vow to Cherish, which was adapted as a television film, and later created the Hanover Falls, Chicory Inn, and Clayburn series. Her books have received the RITA Award, the Carol Award, and other honors in inspirational romance. Reason to Breathe uses the sisters' separate ambitions to launch a connected sequence in which mourning gradually gives way to work, trust, and new definitions of home.