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Summary
From: Rebecca Maney
Book Title: Where Grace Appears
Book Author: Heidi Chiavaroli
What do you like about this book:
3.5 stars
"He'd loved me even then. Why hadn't I had the eyes to appreciate it?"
" . . . he simply couldn't imagine loving another, couldn't imagine them not being together. Who else could he laugh with, fight with, cry with, love with? Who else could he picture by his side into old age?"
It seems that Josie Martin and Tripp Colton have love issues; it's not that they don't love, can't love, haven't loved, could love . . . . but the possibility of love has taken a gargantuan step backward . . . for the two would soon become three, and therein lies the problem. And Tripp doesn't even know it yet. Would he even try to understand if he did?
Instead of being forthright with her family about her expectant state, Josie Martin arrives home and pulls the entire crew into her mother's dream; converting their great aunt's grand Victorian home into a bed and breakfast plus bookstore, using Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House as an inspiration. But all the hammering and nailing and restoring does little to soothe Josie's heart when it pitter-patters at an accelerated rate every time Tripp Colton steps into a room. She has pulled the two of them into an impossible situation, were it not for grace.
A lovely story that amplifies the trials and triumphs of authenticity, demonstrates what it means to love unconditionally and reminds every reader how much courage it takes to forgive, even when it's impossible to forget.
"Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God's grace in its various forms."