The Making of a Beauty
About this ebook
Calysta Daniels was born from her father’s greatest mistake. To atone for this, she lives in her half-sisters’ shadow and carves her pain into her own skin. When her father’s ships sink, their family loses it all, so they move to the house of a dead mother she was never allowed to know.
In Lumaire Valley, her great-aunt threatens them with the past, unraveling the forgotten reality that Calysta’s mother was not a scandal, but a source of faith, of love, of something beautiful. Drawn by her mother’s legacy, Calysta faces who she’s always been: never a mistake. Not just a duckling. A black swan — strange, rare, and real.
The Making of a Beauty is a raw, faith-fueled, coming-of-age novel that shows a God who doesn’t always erase our scars. He rewrites them.
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About the author
Joanna Alonzo is an author of Christian fiction novels with grit, grace, and wonder. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology from St. Louis University, but her creative leanings drew her away from software development to a career in faith and uncertainty. Her homebase is La Trinidad Valley in the Philippines, but she wanders around too much to have a permanent residence. She is a fascinated apprentice to the Greatest Storyteller of all and loves to highlight His supernatural grace in her stories. She loves having coffee chats with people, but isn’t a fan of them hugging her too much.
