Two lives taken down different roads – one enduring love – one shot at starting over.
If only they believed in second chances.
Julia Connelly is finally free from twelve long years in an abusive relationship. Now able to live the life she’s longed for, Julia takes her two children back home to Vermont, hoping for peace and healing. The last person she expects to see is the man she eloped with at eighteen—who then abandoned her two months into their marriage, with little explanation.
When an assignment in the Middle East ends in tragedy, popular news correspondent, Reid Wallace, returns to his hometown seeking answers and peace of mind.
Confronting his past was not in the plan.
Now he’s asking different questions. Like why the only woman he’s ever really loved still mesmerizes him. Why the haunted expression she wears reaches right into his soul.
And why her twelve year-old son looks just like him.
They say you can’t go home again. Sometimes you don’t have a choice.
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Summary
A long and winding road with severe twists and turns, heights and depths, curves and straightaways, transports two severely broken individuals towards the same destination; a \"bridge of faith\". Julia Hansen and Reid Wallace have experienced love at its best and tragedy at its worst; could a clean slate be humanly possible for either, or both of them? Julia has returned home to Vermont after experiencing the nightmare of marital abuse to the point of near death. Her two children; Emily and Mark, also bear the imprint of a highly dysfunctional family and all three welcome a new start following the timely death of Frank Hansen. What Julia never expected was to literally run into her childhood sweet heart; a nationally recognized international news journalist, Reid Wallace; who has returned to Vermont to escape his own personal and professional demons. The ensuing story is beautifully written; filled with emotionally¬tugging realism and gently skirting difficult topics without exaggerated melancholy. Julia and Reid face what some would deem insurmountable circumstances, but in the end, it's their faith in a God who does indeed answer prayer, that makes all the difference. It was my pleasure to receive an advance copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.
Violence: Domestic violence and a few images of war are depicted in this story, but very tactfully and tastefully.
Drug & Alcohol: Some mention; mostly in the past tense.