A Mile From Sunday
by Jo Kadlecek
Colorado Springs: NavPress, 2006, 313 pp., tradepaper.

The first installment in a planned trilogy, A Mile From Sunday introduces us to Jonna Lightfoot McLaughlin, a Presbyterian religion reporter in Denver who grew up in a hippy family that dabbled in just about everything. She struggles with being single in her late 20s, equally eager to find the right man and to break the next big story. A tip about a church that may not be all that it seems gets her investigative juices flowing and drives the story.

A Mile From Sunday doesn't present the typical Christian fiction heroine--Jonna smokes, drinks and is eager to date a Roman Catholic. The ecumenical nature of the book is obvious by the appendix listing sacred sites to visit in Denver--it includes the Zen Center of Denver, offering Zen Buddhist training. While that's a little surprising in a book published by NavPress, the overall story does have obvious Christian overtones.

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