{"id":181,"date":"2024-09-07T12:14:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T19:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patriciamcclurenovels.com\/?p=181"},"modified":"2025-01-19T10:31:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T18:31:36","slug":"introducing-winds-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patriciamcclurenovels.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/07\/introducing-winds-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing\u00a0Winds of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Book One of The Benediction of Paul<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/patriciamcclurenovels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Book1-McClure-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Book cover, a raven grasping a rosary with mountains in the background. Title &quot;Winds of Life&quot; a novel by Patricia McClure. Book 1 of the Benediction of Paul\" class=\"wp-image-38\" style=\"width:291px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patriciamcclurenovels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Book1-McClure-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/patriciamcclurenovels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Book1-McClure-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/patriciamcclurenovels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Book1-McClure-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/patriciamcclurenovels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Book1-McClure-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/patriciamcclurenovels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Book1-McClure-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/patriciamcclurenovels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Book1-McClure-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome to St. Alberic\u2019s Abbey, a Benedictine Monastery in Eastern Montana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karl Mackenzie Knows the Song became a Benedictine monk by default after a drunk driver took the lives of his wife and children. Now known as Father Jacob, he hasn\u2019t quite forgiven God and is not ready to love again. When an orphaned boy, Paul Warner, is adopted by St. Alberic\u2019s Monastery, he and his best friend, Father Joannicus, find themselves face to face with a job neither of them are ready for. God and their contemplative life are overshadowed with an insistent Abbot, a suspicious social worker, and a curious, energetic four year old boy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Winds of Life<\/em>&nbsp;is available in paperback and as an e-book at these venues:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>E-Book<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0CZJYYD2F\">Amazon Kindle<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/winds-of-life\/id6480377519\">Apple Books<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/winds-of-life-patricia-mcclure\/1145878795?ean=2940185617595\">Barnes &amp; Noble<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details?id=1VH-EAAAQBAJ&amp;PAffiliateID=201100lxUm\">Google Play<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/winds-of-life\">Kobo<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/view\/1544424\">Smashwords<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1961953153\">Amazon Paperback<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/winds-of-life-patricia-mcclure\/1145878795?ean=2940185617595\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/winds-of-life-patricia-mcclure\/1145878795?ean=2940185617595\">Barnes &amp; Noble<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book One of The Benediction of Paul Welcome to St. Alberic\u2019s Abbey, a Benedictine Monastery in Eastern Montana. Karl Mackenzie Knows the Song became a Benedictine monk by default after a drunk driver took the lives of his wife and children. Now known as Father Jacob, he hasn\u2019t quite forgiven God and is not ready [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patriciamcclurenovels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patriciamcclurenovels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patriciamcclurenovels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriciamcclurenovels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriciamcclurenovels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/patriciamcclurenovels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/patriciamcclurenovels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patriciamcclurenovels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriciamcclurenovels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriciamcclurenovels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}