“There were seconds, when I woke, when the world felt unshrouded. Then memory returned.”
When Jessica regains consciousness in a French hospital on the day after the Paris attacks, all she can think of is fleeing the site of the horror she survived. But Patrick, the steadfast friend who hasn’t left her side, urges her to reconsider her decision. Worn down by his insistence, she reluctantly agrees to follow through with the trip they’d planned before the tragedy.
“The pages found you,” Patrick whispered.
“Now you need to figure out what they’re trying to say.”
During a stop at a country flea market, Jessica finds a faded document concealed in an antique. As new friends help her to translate the archaic French, they uncover the story of Adeline Baillard, a young woman who lived centuries before—her faith condemned, her life endangered, her community decimated by the Huguenot persecution.
“I write for our descendants, for those who will not understand the cost of our survival.”
Determined to learn the Baillard family’s fate, Jessica retraces their flight from France to England, spurred on by a need she doesn’t understand.
Could this stranger who lived three hundred years before hold the key to Jessica’s survival?
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Summary
From: Rebecca Maney
Book Title: The Space Between Words
Book Author: Michelle Phoenix
What do you like about this book:
"Endure with courage, resist with wisdom, persist in faith."
Jessica's life takes an horrific turn when she is reduced from tourist to victim; suffering a gunshot wound in the historic terrorist attack on a defenseless heavy metal concert audience in Paris, France. Separated from her friends, she is desperate to remember, and to forget. The one person who remains at her side is Patrick, incessantly optimistic and insistent on Jessica remaining in France to complete their already planned countryside tour. While they scour an old barn for antique treasure, Jessica is drawn to a lovely old sewing box, which interesting enough may hold the answers to questions that she never knew to ask.
Adeline Baillard knows that her days are numbered, a staunch Hugenot during one of France's darkest hours, she is eyewitness to professing Christians being brutally purged from within every city and town. As her family's faith becomes more and more dangerous to profess, they make a heart breaking decision; Adeline's brother and wife, along with a younger sister, will flee to England, while Adeline and her parents remain in the small village of Gatigny.
As the darkness of despair invades the hearts of these two young women, separated by the centuries yet inextricably drawn together by the "light", can they possibly understand how "God layers good over the bad", for Michelle Phoenix has written a beautifully blended story with rich history and promising hope!
I received a copy of this book from the publisher. The opinions expressed above are entirely my own.
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