Can love grow in the shadow of a broken past?
Former bad girl Katie Stone can feel the weight of her reputation settle over her as she drives home for the first time in years. Feeling deeply guilty about her past mistakes, Katie wants to do the right thing for once. But the small town where she grew up is not nearly as forgiving as she’d hoped. Despite it all, she’s determined to help her parents cope with her mother’s recent illness, and Katie finds a surprise ally in the man next door.
-
Sexual Content - 0/5
0/5
-
Violence - 0/5
0/5
-
Language - 0/5
0/5
-
Drugs and Alcohol - 0/5
0/5
Summary
What do you like about this book:
Nearly suffocating from fear and trepidation, Katie Stone limps back to her small town Georgia home at the request of her father. It's been four years, and her mother's worsening health condition has convinced Katie to pack everything she owns into her car and hope that she can maintain a low profile, while trying out her newfound faith among those who remember her previous paths of destruction.
Upon arrival, she meets her "hope next door", when neighbor Asher Powell seems to offer Katie his no-strings-attached friendship and assistance. Asher is battling serious regrets of his own, but Katie is convinced that her failures run so deep, that she will eventually bring Asher's reputation down to her level of local despise. As their feelings begin to move beyond platonic, can Katie be persuaded to drop her emotional walls and take the risk of a lifetime?
Asher would say that it takes, "Leverage. Sometimes it just takes a little distance and an extra dose of force to make a stubborn object move." . . . along with a boatload of unconditional love, "accepting her past, yet pushing her to seek out a better future".
This story explodes the perimeters of redeeming love; offering a clear glimpse of the heighth and the depth and the breadth of God's loving forgiveness displayed in broken, fragmented, and ultimately restored human relationships. What an amazing example of inspirational fiction!