Last week I read a really good book by one of my fellow Mantle Rock Publishing authors, Heather Greer!
Faith’s Journey, a contemporary romance, is set in Kentucky’s neighboring state, in Southern Illinois!
Here’s the blurb:
Katie McGowan left her parents and their faith behind years ago. However, when faced with a devastating betrayal, Katie is ready to go back to Carbondale, Illinois to help her elderly parents despite their tempestuous relationship. Drained by the constant friction, Katie finds emotional support and encouragement in Austin. His practical, simple faith speaks to Katie, and she finds herself yearning for a new connection to God. As their friendship grows, so does the attraction between Katie and Austin.
Before her fledgling faith and thoughts of romance have a chance to take root, Katie’s cheating fiancé returns, remorseful and promising change. Can her tentative faith strengthen their past love? And if her heart breaks again, will Katie’s journey to faith end before it has really begun?
With couples waiting until later in life to rear children, this was an interesting take – a girl in her late twenties, her parents in their seventies! You can imagine the relationship challenges. It’s difficult enough when you’re only twenty-some-odd years removed from your child’s adult experiences, but over forty? I can’t imagine.
The main character, Katie, hasn’t made the best of decisions in her personal life, and for that reason, she distances herself from her parents, but can’t stay away when her mother is in an accident and needs help at home. Heartbreak makes going home both easier and harder, but the friendship she finds in her old hometown draws her back to the God she had forsaken. He hasn’t left, she has, and she realizes that truth.
Heather does a great job getting into Katie’s head, and her characters feel like real people that we all know. Katie goes back and forth, second-guessing herself and refusing to let go of her past, which is very realistic.
If you’re looking for a great book for yourself, or someone you love, you can purchase Faith’s Journey HERE!
Happy Reading!!
Thanks, Regina. It sounds wonderful. I would love to read it. If I could afford every print book I get a hankering to read, I’d be one happy camper. “Sigh.”
I don’t do ebooks.