Like the winter, grief has a season. Life returns with the spring.
A young architect at a prestigious Chicago firm, Bethany Quinn has built the life she dreamed of during her teen years in a trailer park. An unexpected interruption from her estranged mother reveals that tragedy has struck in her hometown and a reluctant Bethany is called back to rural Iowa.
Determined to pay her respects to her past while avoiding any emotional entanglements, she vows not to stay long. But the unexpected inheritance of five hundred acres of farmland and a startling turn of events in Chicago forces Bethany to come up with a new plan.
Handsome farmhand Evan Price has taken care of the Quinn farm for years. When Bethany is left the land, Evan must fight her decisions to realize his dreams. But even as he disagrees with Bethany’s vision, Evan feels drawn to her and the pain she keeps so carefully locked away.
For Bethany, making peace with her past and the God of her childhood doesn’t seem like the path to freedom. Is letting go the only way to new life, love and a peace that she’s not even sure exists?
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Summary
Bethany Quinn wants nothing to do with her hometown. She left Peaks, Iowa at eighteen and has rarely looked back, although she carries every memory loaded on her back and weighing her down. When she gets a call that there is a crisis, she figures she'll send a card. When the next call tells her of her Grandpa Dan in crisis, she takes a few days off from her architect job in Chicago. She has her fancy job, clothes and car...far from the trailer park girl she escaped being. When her Chicago life suddenly changes along with choices to make in Peaks...it leads Bethany on a confusing road that will change her life forever. You can run from many things...yourself is not one of them. It's hard to know where to even begin, this book touched so deep in so many ways. Katie was able to show so many inside emotions of the characters. Bethany and her struggle against God and to be anything besides the little girl from Peaks. Evan Price who knew where Bethany was coming from as he had his own struggle with God in the past, wanting to help her but knowing from experience not to push. Robin Price's perspective was incredible...the struggle with letting Micah go...in more ways than one...struggling with how to live when you feel as part of you has died. And the religious struggles of legalism vs true Christianity. This book didn't cut corners or avoid struggles. It didn't make it look easy for Christians to face loss and have God's instant healing and yet they knew He was there with them. You would have to read it to understand all the workings of this but I was impressed. **I received this book free from Waterbrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review. http://justjudysjumbles.blogspot.com/2012/02/waterbrook-multnomah-publishing-group.html