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Prologue
It happened in Africa
Rahela Morgan tiptoed along the tiled hallway, holding her breath. A hyena howled in the distance. Her dog, Titan, barked in reply. But in the house, no one stirred, not even her old nurse, Deborah, who had ears like a hawk and a nose for sniffing out trouble.
“So far, so good,” thought Rahela, as she slipped into the bathroom and closed the door softly behind her. She fumbled in the pocket of her pajamas for the precious packet she had bought that day at the pharmacy in Mombasa, fifty miles away. Morning sickness for several weeks had made her determined to know the worst.

Lillian Harvey’s first and only novel.

Posted on July 24, 2014June 7, 2018 by

The King’s Diamond is a “must” for all young people. Read how a Christian girl, facing many subtle pressures and fierce temptations, meets the tests put to her by a rich and skeptical young diamond merchant from South Africa. Exulting in his great “find”, this worldly young man discovers, to his chagrin, that Someone has outbid him! Read, and be encouraged that it is possible, even today, to prove that Christ can take our worthless ore and produce from it a gem of priceless value.

The Velvet Curtain by Trudy Harvey Tait

Posted on February 21, 2014June 7, 2018 by

Are the characters in your novel, “The Velvet Curtain” people you have actually known? This is a question I get asked fairly frequently and I suppose,like many writers, I would have to answer “Yes” and “No.” The two sisters, Esther and Gabby were originally based on two Romanian girls I had come to know pretty well, but as “The Velvet Curtain” progressed, Esther became less and less like the original girl I had in mind. Gabby, on the other hand, stayed pretty true to form although she did a great many things that the real “Gabby” (that was not her name, of course) never did. But in character, the fictional and the real greatly resembled one another.

The other characters resembled “types” of people I had known. Larry, in “Behind the Velvet Curtain,” the second in “The Velvet Curtain Series,” was the most difficult of all my characters to make come alive. My family told me that I caricatured him because he lived in a totally different world from the one in which I had been brought up and so I could not enter into his mindset as I had for most of the other characters. Well, I tried to do just that and found it almost impossible. Ramona, also, posed somewhat of the same problem. I trust, however, that due to good advice and a lot of hard work and prayer, each character does come to life.
“The Velvet Curtain Series,” is published by Harvey Christian Publishers and is available in their Online Christian Bookstore.

Love Me and Let Me Go

Posted on January 23, 2014June 7, 2018 by

Love Me and Let Me Go
Why do we often smother those we love? Why do we cling onto them far past the time when they deserve to be their own independent selves? What are we afraid of? And why cannot we allow them to follow God in a path which perhaps we may not tread with them? We have taught them about God; we have tried to set them an example, albeit in our own flawed way. Then why can’t we trust them into the hands of the Almighty?

Love Me and Let Me Go presents some of the problems when a parent is not willing to face up to these questions. The father in the story is a very good man. No, more than that; he is a very devout man, whose religion is genuine, practical, and contagious. He hears from God and is sure of what He says to him. And, because of his certainty, he is also sure of what God wants for his daughter, so sure that he will not entertain the idea that perhaps she might not have heard the same message. In fact, there is a distinct possibility that she may have heard a totally different message. Now it is true that this daughter is still immature in many ways and very capable of making a fatal mistake as she seeks to run her life her own way. It is equally true, however, that she loves God sincerely and wants to please Him but she wishes to find her own feet spiritually.
How she does this and how her father learns, almost too late, that it is best to “love and let go” is related in this novel, Love Me and Let Me Go, written by Trudy Harvey Tait which, though not biographical in historical detail, is certainly biographical in sentiment. The lessons she has learned, often the hard way, both as a daughter and as a parent, are the lessons the heroine and her parents must also learn. It is published by Harvey Christian Publishers and is available in their online Christian Bookstore.

The Velvet Curtain

Posted on December 17, 2013June 7, 2018 by

The Velvet Curtain Series

The phrase “The Velvet Curtain” was in the mind and heart of Trudy Harvey Tait long before she took up her pen to write “The Velvet Curtain Series.” Growing up in the cold war,she had often heard the phrase “The Iron Curtain” and was glad that she, for one, was privileged to live in the
West where such a curtain did not exist. Little by little, however, she came to discover that there was a Western counterpart which made itself felt from time to time.

Then, when she finally began to make yearly trips to Eastern Europe shortly after the fall of Communism and then return to her home in the States, she was conscious of another kind of “Curtain” which was smooth, velvety, and terribly smothering. This, she finally concluded was indeed a curtain of velvet which every true Christian has to combat if he or she wishes to survive spiritually. One day, she decided, she would write about this curtain. And, finally, she did, and so the series “The Velvet Curtain” came into being.

Harvey Christian Publishers does not normally publish novels but the trilogy “The Velvet Curtain Series,” is now available on its online Christian bookstore. And although they are not, strictly speaking, devotional books such as our books on prayer, humility, suffering, etc., they embrace all of these subjects, for how on earth is anyone to resist the smothering effects of the Velvet Curtain, if they do not bathe themselves in prayer, be clothed in humility, and be prepared to suffer? Christians belong not to a Western or Eastern Culture but to a Heavenly Kingdom and as citizens of that kingdom, their lives contradict at all points worldly systems and maxims.

When Trudy Harvey Tait wrote these books, she did not visualize their being printed in Eastern Europe but hoped they would be helpful to immigrants to the States to be forewarned that although they might have escaped the Iron Curtain, they would soon encounter a far more subtle “Curtain” as they began their new lives in the West. It wasn’t long however, before it became evident that in countries such as Romania and Russia, there was a crying need for such a warning. The Velvet Curtain was not confined to America or Western Europe but, following in freedom’s wake, it was attempting to enfold churches and individuals, who were basking in their newfound liberty, in its insidious folds. And it has turned out that The Velvet Curtain Series has actually more appeal in the East than here in the States. Why? Who knows? Perhaps one lady who owned a Christian Bookstore in the UK was right when she told a friend, “The person who wrote the Velvet Curtain was very courageous.” And when asked why, she replied, “Because the books are counter-cultural here in the West.” And her sentiments were echoed by a business man in the States who wrote that he had never been aware of this Velvet Curtain until he read the book “The Velvet Curtain,” the first in this series. It had made him aware of its danger and truly thankful.

Christian Romance Novels : Love Me & Let Me Go

Posted on August 10, 2013June 7, 2018 by

Christian romance novels! There are thousands on the market. Many are trashy, some are worth reading, and a few are outstanding!Today’s generation loves action so many novelists open their story with a “Kiss-kiss, bang-bang, hallelujah!” as someone aptly put it. Well, I can’t and won’t begin my novels in this way. So, no, I’m not making millions as a writer and I’m sure, never will.

And yet, I am improving, slowly perhaps, but improving nevertheless—learning not to rely on religious clichés to make my book appealing to friends who won’t allow a romance in their house. I am also avoiding the temptation to caricaturize the characters I don’t like but rather try to put myself in their shoes, a virtual impossibility sometimes.

“Your books will fall through the cracks,” one friend warned. “They’re too broad for the conservative and too narrow for the liberal.” I groaned when I heard his remark, fearing it was only too true and then comforted myself there were probably very many readers who had “fallen through the cracks” themselves.

So with that rather lengthy introduction, let me present my most recent novel: “Love me and let me go.” Using the present tense, I let five of my main characters tell the story—Cherry, Angus, Dennis and others. And while the actual events are not taken from my own life, this novel is in many ways truly biographical. My heroine feels about many things just as I have felt and asks the same questions. The issues she faces are those I have faced, if not in my own life, then in the lives of those close to me.

“How can someone so right be so wrong?” my heroine asks, speaking of her devout yet controlling father who, after realizing the pain he causes his family by mistaking the voice of God for his own voice, he admits, in an agony of grief, “I have been the victim of my own sanctity!”

Yes, “Love me and let me go,” is a Christian romance novel, that is, it has romance, is Christian and is fictitious. And some of you who have read our books on prayer, or on “God and suffering,” or on Christian parenting etc. etc. may not be attracted to Love me and let me go. But, if you find it almost impossible to “love and, at the same time to let go” someone dear to you—to allow them to be their own person and find their own feet spiritually—then give my book a try. Or if you are a child who loves your parents, respects them for their Christian devotion and yet are desperately seeking to find your own feet spiritually, then maybe my heroine’s path to true freedom will help you grow into God’s will for your life.

This Christian novel isn’t perfect. There are many more brilliant books on the market. But I guarantee it will make you think. Don’t look for pat answers, but as you read, trace the thread of hope running through the warp and woof of life, woven by God’s own hand as He makes a masterpiece out of broken threads and knotted yarn, knowing that what he has done for Cherry, and Angus, and Dennis, he can do for you.

Christian Romance Novels

Posted on July 31, 2013June 7, 2018 by

For many years, I helped edit my parents’ devotional books—books on prayer, books to help us to know God better, books on how to pray, Christian parenting books, books about God and suffering, books on the lives of saints etc. etc. My father died in 1983 and my services were needed more than ever as he had been our editor-in-chief as well as co-author with his wife, Lillian.

The years passed; mother was over ninety and no longer able to write. I struggled with the situation in which I found myself and turned to books, as usual, for solace. This time, however, it was to write them, not to read them. Over the years, I had written for our British magazine The Message of Victory. I had also co-authored several children’s books with my mother as well as composing poetry from time to time. But my secret ambition had been to write Christian Romance Novels, one in particular, and it was to be called The Velvet Curtain. Growing up during the cold war, the term “Iron Curtain” had become firmly embedded in my mind. But, slowly, I came to the conclusion that we in the West had our own counterpart. It was soft, velvety, intrusive, invasive, and equally as controlling as the Iron Curtain. Too often I had watched as unsuspecting immigrants from the East, soon found themselves entangled in its soft folds. Perhaps a novel set in the eighties describing how two young women from Romania combat this subtle curtain might prove a warning to many, (and entertaining reading into the bargain).

And so another Christian romance novel was born or rather a trilogy of Christian romance novels came into being for the first was soon followed by Behind the Velvet Curtain and Escaping the Velvet Curtain.

Christian Romance Novels

Posted on July 10, 2013June 7, 2018 by

In Harvey Christian Publisher’s online , we major in devotional books. However, we do publish a few Christian Romance Novels. The first of these was the King’s Diamond, published in 1958 in England and written by my mother, Lillian Harvey. It was her first and only novel.

I can remember vividly sitting in our little “caravan” or trailer which was parked in our yard on the grounds of our house in the Lake District. It was vacation time. I was about thirteen years of age and bored to tears so Mother suggested that I take up pen and paper and write what she was about to dictate. I don’t know quite what I expected, certainly not what followed—the opening lines of a Christian Romance Novel, something she had never tackled before.

And so began the story of a young diamond merchant from South Africa who was searching for a human diamond, someone worthy to become his wife. Life had dealt hardly with him and he had little faith in God or humanity, and he was skeptical that he would ever find a human diamond.. When a certain young woman finally passed all the tests he applied to human gems, he discovered that she was a devoted Christian and could not think of marrying him. Of course, as you may imagine, this is not the end of the story. To discover the finale, go to our website and purchase it for yourself.

Many years have passed. Mother is now in her Heavenly Home, but her story lives on. Some consider that it more than an allegory than one of the usual Christian Romance Novels you pick up in a Christian Book Store. But whatever it may be, to me it holds precious memories of mother and daughter “special time” together when a thirteen-year-old was bored to tears and lo, a Christian novel was born.

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