A handsome rock star and love-of-her life husband, a beautiful vintage home in Southern California, and a clear career path - what more could a quirky cool former Goth chick ask for? The way writer Maddy McManus saw it, after years of battling fear and insecurity, her life has finally fallen into place.

Maddy has begun to write her first work of fiction to - hopefully - stir the spiritual hearts and minds of the literary world.

Her previous publishing experience coauthoring Peter’s band’s high-grossing biography left her a bit psychologically bruised. Maddy made questionable choices with her dangerously charming coauthor, Mickey Harris. Maddy knew she was forgiven for the affair, but had she forgiven herself?

Then life throws Maddy a major-league curveball. This new development does not fit into Maddy’s perfect life at all. But she discovers a deeper level of adoration - and heartbreak - than she has ever experienced.

While joining her husband on tour in Berlin, Germany, a peculiar elderly Italian woman in an ancient church speaks a phrase to Maddy that haunts her in her broken world. Can she make sense of the woman’s words...and of the healing these words bring Maddy from her suffocating grief?

And then Peter’s past comes crashing back in an enormous way. Can Maddy make peace with the repercussions of her husband’s history?

Fish Out of Water is the third book in the Garden Key Tales series. It is the tale of purpose, prayer, and plenteous pizza in Germany.

The second book in the series, Mind over Madeleine, is a tale of fear, forgiveness, and the Loch Ness Monster (released in 2014). And the first book in the series, The Garden Key, is a tale of lust, redemption, and really good cheeseburgers, which was released in 2010 to rave reviews and emotionally spent readers and listeners. The Garden Key Study Guide is a companion Bible study guide to the novel and an excellent tool for individual or group study, particularly for those looking to remain faithful to God while in the dating world.