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Journey to ChiYah Paperback – June 16, 2021
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- Print length280 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJune 16, 2021
- Dimensions5.5 x 0.71 x 8.5 inches
- ISBN-13979-8504988849
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-Pegg Thomas-Award-Winning Author of Sarah's Choice
This book is a great read! There are so many wonderful visuals of what the trinity can do in each of our lives if we can just learn to trust them and lean on them. I think everyone can relate in some way to Jade's journey. We all have issues and struggles. I appreciate the really creative way this story was written. It draws you in from the start and leaves you wanting more at the end.
-Melissa Houtz-Graphics Designer and Proofreader
Journey to ChiYah is a modern day classic comparable to Pilgrim's Progress only with a female heroine. The author's imagination takes readers on a tangled adventure through ChiYah in this relatable Christian allegory. The dialog is excellent, the story quick paced and the creativity is astounding. I especially loved the growth of the lead character. Readers will enjoy this epic expedition into inner growth through outward challenges.
-Laura Loveberry, Speaker/Author/Sign Language Dramatist/Caricature Artist
Journey to ChiYah is a magnificent novel that will bring healing to many. Ms.Russell has written a truly inspiring and brilliant book, and as a psychologist, I would've loved recommending Journey to my clients. It is a powerful, soul-deep calling story that can help others so maybe they won't have to go through years of struggle.
-Dr. Rita Garcia, Retired Psychologist
From the Author
Finding my purpose was a lengthy endeavor, but out of dark times and my own quest for wholeness, God birthed His intentions for me: "The Grrrr of a Writer." What started out as a pitiful mewl, grew to consume my soul and come out roaring like a lion that could not be silenced. I hope Journey to ChiYah touched your heart, provoked a laugh, or made you think. If so, my mission has been accomplished.
Write my answer plainly on tablets so that a runner can carry the correct message to others. Habakkuk 2:2 (NLT)
Please take a minute and write a review on Amazon, GoodReads, and BookBub. It only takes a few sentences and is incredibly helpful. I'd greatly appreciate it. Keep up on what's happening with me by signing up for my newsletter. You'll get inside information, fun stuff, and updates on my next book, Photo Finish. Also, check out my website at kimberlykrussell.com and my author page on Facebook. Thank you for reading Journey to ChiYah.
From the Back Cover
Answers come in the form of an unexpected opportunity when Jade finds herself stuck in a mythical land. She meets Mayor Dudley, who insinuates she is emotionally broken and in need of repair ... a fact she'd just as soon ignore. He offers to help her get home if she is willing to face her issues through a process of restoration. Frightened and skeptical yet out of options, Jade grudgingly agrees. And soon figures out that change is a journey, not a destination.
Come along on the adventure of a lifetime, and maybe you'll find someone you never knew you lost: Yourself.
About the Author
Retired for four years, Kim's day job was that of civil servant in the Michigan Department of Corrections at the local prison complex. She served as Warden's Secretary under two female wardens in a three-prison complex of medium security inmates. The highlight of Kimberly's career was the role of Program Coordinator for the first inmate-dog training program in the MDOC. Since its inception in 2003, thousands of rescued greyhounds and "pound puppies" have been through the program, and it has expanded to many other facilities in the Michigan system.
Kim began writing in 2009 after she joined an on-line writing community called FaithWriters and regularly participated in their weekly writing challenge. High-ranking finishes led to publication in the 2015 & 2017 FaithWriters anthologies. Branching out to become a columnist for a local entertainment publication called Frank Talk was a challenge. The publisher allowed Kim to be a guest contributor in their "Critter Corner" but was hesitant to add a fictional component. After a trial run of The Adventures of Miranda DailyLife, Kim authored the column for over a year and enjoyed an enthusiastic readership. Kimberly has also been published in Dog Life Magazine and has three full-length manuscripts from participation in the National Novel Writing Month challenge held in November each year (writing a 50,000 word novel in 30 days.) One of these-Photo Finish-is her next project--stay tuned!
When not hanging out in her favorite place on earth--the She Shed-- and creating literary magic, Kim is a pickleball fiend, playing several times a week. She also loves to read, enjoys a somewhat mediocre golf game, and is a tech geek.
Product details
- ASIN : B09754JB73
- Publisher : Independently published (June 16, 2021)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 280 pages
- ISBN-13 : 979-8504988849
- Item Weight : 12.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.71 x 8.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #4,210,275 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,608 in Religious Science Fiction & Fantasy (Books)
- #2,213 in Christian Classics & Allegories (Books)
- #4,308 in Christian Fantasy (Books)
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About the author

Kimberly Russell is a recent transplant to Indiana from Michigan and lives with Toby, the Shih Tzu, who allows her to be his roommate.
Retired for several years, Kim’s day job was that of civil servant in the Michigan Department of Corrections at the local prison complex. She served as Warden’s Secretary under two female wardens in a three-prison complex of medium security inmates. The highlight of Kimberly’s career was the role of Program Coordinator for the first inmate-dog training program in the MDOC. Since its inception in 2003, thousands of rescued greyhounds and 'pound puppies' have been through the program, and it has expanded to many other facilities in the Michigan system.
Kim began writing in 2009 after she joined an on-line writing community called FaithWriters and regularly participated in their weekly writing challenge. High-ranking finishes led to publication in the 2015 & 2017 FaithWriters anthologies. Branching out to become a columnist for a local entertainment publication called Frank Talk was a challenge. The publisher allowed Kim to be a guest contributor in their “Critter Corner” but was hesitant to add a fictional component. After a trial run of The Adventures of Miranda DailyLife, Kim authored the column for over a year and enjoyed an enthusiastic readership.
Kimberly has also been published in Dog Life Magazine and has three full-length manuscripts from participation in the National Novel Writing Month challenge held in November each year (writing a 50,000 word novel in 30 days.)
Her first self-published work was Journey to ChiYah, released in 2021. It is the story of a gal who goes on a mythical adventure and finds someone she never knew she lost: Herself.
Book 1 of the Persistent Hope Series, Photo Finish, debuted in 2023, and is about an issue-filled man named Frankie Taylor, whose scheme to end it all unravels after an odd chain of events involving a digital camera and God's grace. We also meet Cara Alexander, a troubled teen whose life intersects with Frankie's and changes forever.
Book 2, Unexpected Finish, was released in November, 2024, and follows Cara into adulthood. She wants to live life on her terms, but adulting is hard, things get messy, and she finds herself fighting for survival. Can she trust God to save her?
When not creating literary magic, Kim is a pickleball fiend, playing several times a week. She also loves to read, hang with friends and family, and is a tech geek.
Follow Kim at BookBub and Goodreads.
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Customers enjoy the engaging fiction and humor in this self-help book. They find it fun to draw parallels between the quest and their life as Christians and learning to trust. The book transports readers to a world of restoration, healing, redemption, and personal revision.
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Customers enjoy the engaging fiction and humor in this fantasy book. They find it fun to draw parallels between the quest and their life as Christians and learning to trust.
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"...This is a book for everyone. The book is “fantasy”, I suppose you might say, but it is also deeply allegorical to our journey through life and..." Read more
"...who enjoyed Pilgrim’s Progress or The Shack will enjoy this fantasy/ allegory of self-awakening...." Read more
"I enjoyed reading about Jades's quest. It was fun to draw parallels between the quest and our life as Christians and learning to trust and depend on..." Read more
Customers find the book healing and uplifting. They say it transports them to a world of restoration, healing, redemption, and self-awakening. The story is deeply allegorical to their journey through life. Readers appreciate the Biblical truths and modern counseling practices in the book. They also mention the humor and relatability of Jade's thoughts, words, and actions.
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- Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2025If you’re a fan of The Screwtape Letters or Pilgrim’s Progress, then Kimberly Russell’s Journey to ChiYah is a perfect fit for you. In this Christian allegory, you’ll find a self-help book wrapped in a fantasy world setting. It’s full of sound Biblical truths as well as modern counseling practices, such as Internal Family Systems therapy, that will entertain as well as challenge readers to move towards restoration in their own lives.
While this isn’t necessarily a light read, I didn’t find it difficult to read and finish it in a relatively short time period. My heart hurt for Jade and rejoiced with her as she overcame the hurdles and roadblocks that came her way. If anyone has worked through similar issues in therapy or counseling, you’ll be encouraged to find the similarities in the work being done in this story. I also appreciated the heavy dose of humor and relatability in Jade’s thoughts, words, and actions throughout her journey to ChiYah.
- Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2021Some who read the title of the book will be perplexed and think, “I don’t think this is the book for me,” but they would be wrong. This is a book for everyone.
The book is “fantasy”, I suppose you might say, but it is also deeply allegorical to our journey through life and especially our journey with God and Christ.
This book will transport you to a world of restoration, healing, redemption, and personal revision. It will remind you that we do not merely war against flesh and blood, but “against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.”
The book takes the reader on a fantastical journey with Jade Pepperdine, a 30-something woman who has faced her fair share of heartache, rejection, and flattened self-worth.
Hook yourself in, readers. This is a work of fiction but for many it will be a hard dose of reality wrapped up in a gentle embrace.
After an accident tosses Jade, quite literally, upside down, she finds herself in a mystical land, which she at first believes is part of a dream. She soon learns that ChiYah is very real indeed. A group of five eccentric helpers come alongside her to help her battle her way through the various dangers of ChiYah to reach her personal healing.
But reaching restoration won’t come easy for Jade. She’s agreed to the quest Mayor Dudley has offered to her, albeit grudgingly, so she can go back to her reality in “the real world” working at a library and fending off her overly critical mother. Now she has to sidestep the traps along the way, including unassuming attacks from a mysterious stranger who hopes to cause her to stumble and come work for him instead.
Journey to ChiYah is a book that will have you looking inside yourself, maybe not liking what you see, and then considering taking your own quest to make peace with every part of you — the happy parts, the grumpy parts, the sometimes unreasonable parts, the parts that have been hurt, the parts that have been rejected, the parts that still have hope left in them.
Russell is a talented writer who uses well-written, engaging fiction laced with humor, well thought out dialogue, and entertaining characters to drive her point home. She uses fiction and prose to touch on so many issues we frail humans deal with, including anxiety, anger, unforgiveness, self-deprecating behavior, distrust, insecurity, a critical spirit.
Most of all, though, she uses her talent to point us to the only one who can heal us of the issues that threaten our joy — a Heavenly Father who wants to take us on a journey that might seem difficult but in the end will lead us into a meadow of peace, even with the chaos of life swirls around us.
- Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2021I believe that anyone who enjoyed Pilgrim’s Progress or The Shack will enjoy this fantasy/ allegory of self-awakening. After Jade, the main character, has a car accident, she goes to surgery and while under anesthesia she goes on a journey where she must come to terms with her past before being allowed to return to her present circumstances. The writing is good and kept me reading until the end.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2022I enjoyed reading about Jades's quest. It was fun to draw parallels between the quest and our life as Christians and learning to trust and depend on God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Great job, Kim!
- Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2021This is my first time writing a review, but felt compelled to write one. I couldn’t put this book down. Jade’s journey to Restoration, forgiveness, and healing is something I could totally relate to. Grateful is how I feel after reading this book.
- Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2024Journey to Chī Yah is about a woman who wants a change in her life. So, Jade is transported to the world of Chī Yah to complete a restoration quest, looking into her past to settle issues she currently faces.
I really enjoyed this book, relating to Jade in a couple of ways. I recommend this book to anyone who is looking to restore themselves, taking a deeper look at what may be holding them back
- Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2021Journey to ChiYah is a fun fantasy that takes the reader into a place of self-exploration and imagination. Jade’s journey is full of likeable characters, thought-provoking challenges, and a myriad of emotions. It is easy to relate to her struggles and family dynamics. I felt myself engage quickly in what would happen next and I couldn’t put the book down. I could imagine myself in Jade’s position and soon I was both rooting for her success and frustrated with her backsliding. The characters she meets along the way are endearing and full of personality. I loved how they encouraged Jade while allowing her to make discoveries about areas of her life she’d kept closed from others for years. Jade learned a lesson that we all can learn from, that true self-healing comes from exploring our inner struggles, making peace with our pasts and, ultimately, learning to love ourselves. The book approaches this sensitive topic in a way that allows the reader to explore their own personal journey along with Jade. It is a light read with fun twists and it leaves you hoping for a sequel.