Tess has built a new life in Alabama, repairing timepieces and avoiding her troubled past as she restores her customers’ family heirlooms–treasures she never had herself. When a mysterious package arrives addressed to Teresa Baker, the name she abandoned, Tess finds herself drawn into a puzzle that threatens her delicate peace.
Then Elliot Sullivan appears at her door after eighteen years, and Tess knows he’s after more than just forgiveness. She doesn’t trust his motives, but it becomes apparent that he could be the key to uncovering the origin of the mystery package and its cryptic contents.
Tess has found safety in her simple life, but reuniting this lost heirloom to its rightful recipient requires her to come out of hiding. Each clue leads to a different place around the world, and each story reveals hidden truths. The question is whether she’s brave enough to face what she might find–and whether the man beside her can be trusted with what matters most.
Award-winning author Amanda Cox crafts a crosscontinental journey of connection, healing, and belonging.
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Summary
4.5 stars Reviewed by Rebecca
"What a life this instrument must have lived."
Timeless Restorations allowed Tess Holcomb to take things apart and put them back together again, but her business also honored the stories behind the heirlooms that made them priceless. When she receives a curious package with a cryptic message and addressed to a name that is only familiar to one person . . . Tess . . . she tries to retreat from the challenge, only to run into a more formidable one; Elliot Sullivan.
Seeing her past in human form chatting amiably with her employees sends Tess into a panic. Elliot on the other hand, acts as if he has found precious treasure. Surely he has not, as he claims, been searching for her for the past eighteen years. And then there's the matter of the mysterious package, is it finally time to dissect what she left behind in order to reimagine her own future?
An enduring story, with many twists and turns, that traces the travels of a precious timepiece through the hands of its many temporary caretakers while challenging two broken souls to allow God to "restore the years that the locusts have eaten". (Joel 2:25)
"Forgiveness sounds so nice and so simple. Tidy. But it is messy business for us mere mortals."