Welcome to the Blog Tour for Escape to Passignano by Normandie Fischer, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours! This sounds like such an interesting read! Be sure to check out her Guest Post below and enter the giveaway as well!
About the Book
Title: Escape to Passignano
Series: Carolina Coast Stories
Author: Normandie Fischer
Publisher: Sleepy Creek Press
Release Date: March 31, 2026
Genre: Christian Women's Fiction
Can dreams be trusted when life feels like a nightmare?
Sophia chose to honor her deceased husband’s wishes by visiting his hometown of Passignano sul Trasimeno in the Umbrian region of Italy. She’s trying to find the peace he promised, really she is, while she studies his language and sips caffè with a view of mountains and lake. Only, things begin to happen involving a red-haired child who speaks of things she cannot know—and the child’s father whose very presence challenges that peace.
Dr. Luca Moretti still wrestles with guilt three years after the death of his wife and older children. Overwhelmed by grief, Luca gave the care of his toddler daughter, Noemi, to his sister. It was supposed to be temporary; it wasn’t. Now, Luca wants Noemi back.
When his sister flees, taking Noemi into hiding, Sophia joins forces with a desperate Luca to piece together dreams and voices and supernatural nudges to retrace Noemi’s steps. It’s going to take trust, though, something in short supply for both Luca and Sophia. They’ll have to learn to trust in one another, and, more importantly, to trust in God—that a God who would allow such pain really does mean to work it all out for good. For Noemi. For the two of them. And for a troubled woman from North Carolina who enters their orbit with her own demons, demons God uses—and dispels—as He wills.
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Guest Post
How do you take a heavy topic like the death of a spouse, or in this case two spouses,
and turn it into a story of hope and possible romance?
None of us escapes death, but for those in Christ, losing a spouse—or a child—often feels harder than facing our own mortality. Sometimes that loss becomes the catalyst for a crisis of faith, especially if we know God as the Healer Who chose not to heal our beloved. Or, in the case of Luca, what do you do with faith in a God Who didn’t intervene to stop Luca’s unhappy wife from running off with his older children,
precipitating the accident that killed them all.
Both Sophia and Luca are overwhelmed by grief, but Luca also carries a huge dose of guilt. Sophia’s prayers weren’t answered; Luca was too busy to know he needed to pray—and intervene--for his wife and so lost his beloved children. Thus, grief and guilt become the mechanism by which both struggle with their faith, knowing they need God but not knowing how to find their way back to Him. And both put bandages on their pain—Sophia initially by closing herself off from life in her NY apartment, and Luca by
spending even more time at his clinic or the hospital. Now, his guilt spills into his neglect of his youngest child who has disappeared. What happened to Luca and Sophia becomes the excuse for their choices, and they need a path forward. That’s hard for any of us. For Sophia as well as the miserable Deborah, Italy provides the backdrop for challenges that propel them toward new choices, forks in the road that will lead to a positive or a negative outcome.
I write to explore hearts and lives, the things we experience and what those experiences do to us and in us, and to explore interactions that help us find our way to God and His healing. As a prayer minister, I hear a lot of personal stories that inform my desire to see people delivered and healed, which often means finding a place in the arms of Jesus as the hurting learn to trust Him for the first time--or again.
My own walk has not been easy, but I learned early that the love of God transcends the momentary suffering of this world and that He can take any situation and turn it to good. Each character in my books has the opportunity to learn this in one way or another—through the forgiveness they find or the assurance of love.
When my unbelieving stepfather was entering the last stage of his cancer battle, I cried out to the Lord for him, begging God to see his kindness and love and to introduce him to Jesus. I heard in my spirit these words: “When he and Jesus meet face to face, they will recognize each other because love cannot exist without the God Who is Love.” Now, did that mean Peter would definitely find salvation before he died? Or that some form of a works-based salvation existed? No. Absolutely not. Salvation only comes through
Jesus Christ, from his shed Blood in the Atonement. But those words brought me peace because they reminded me that I could trust my Savior with that dear man’s soul.
The words also reminded me that romance, true romance, has its roots in the love of God for His people. True love cannot exist apart from God, and everything we call love that doesn’t include Him is rooted in something less. My desire is for my characters to find Him and find each other as they rub against the hard bits that come with living. These aren’t romances; they are love stories. The focus is always on healing, and healing often leads the wounded to a new experience of love.
About the Author
Normandie Fischer had the best of several worlds: a Southern heritage, access to schooling in the DC area (which meant lots of cultural adventures), and several years of sculpture studies in Italy. It might have been better for her if she'd used all these opportunities more wisely, but it's possible that the imperfect and the unwise also add fodder for the artist and the writer.
She writes Christian and Southern fiction as well as romantic suspense from her waterfront base in coastal North Carolina, where she lives with her husband, their two dogs, and a once-feral cat. If only her children and grandchildren lived within hailing distance, life would be just about perfect.
Connect with Normandie by visiting normandiefischer.com to follow her on social media and subscribe to email updates.
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(2) winners will each receive three books of their choice by Normandie Fischer!
Full tour schedule linked below. The giveaway begins at midnight April 20, 2026 and will last through 11:59 PM EST on April 27, 2026. Winners will be notified within 2 weeks of close of the giveaway and given 48 hours to respond or risk forfeiture of prize. US only. Void where prohibited by law or logistics.
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