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Dr. Rachel Donovan has worked real
hard to build a name for herself in Shady Grove’s a town where she
grew up. The people of this town voted her Citizen of the Year
because she loves them and they know it. She wants to make people
proud of her but how can she do that when the past is not far
behind. Always overshadowing her achievements. She was the
responsible child growing up, always easy going and someone you
could rely on until that one summer when her world was turned
upside down. One bad choice, that’s all it took to be out cast and
all alone. She thought she would never recover from that one
decision.
Rachel cries out to God one night
when she can’t juggle the past and the present any longer. She
asks God to listen to her just like the other times over the
years. Her pain was great! ” How many times I’ve asked You to take
this whole thing away. What am I doing wrong?” She searches her
heart; it’s willing but what was it? Realization hits her hard;
she had to forgive herself. Sometimes that’s the hardest person to
forgive. She had to Stop punishing herself for what happened but
how?
One of Rachel’s close friends says to
her one day …”Your past made you the amazing woman you are today.
But you still need to embrace the future, free of shame and
guilt.” Rachel wasn’t fooling anyone but herself. She asked the
Lord again for help she couldn’t do this on her own.
Jack Westwood cowboy rodeo star the
one person she has been avoiding since he has come to town. She
wasn’t going to get tangled up with another cowboy; it wasn’t so
great the last time. Rachel was determined to not let anyone close
to her again but Jack Westwood is turning up every where she goes.
She knows his kind but the more she runs into him she is finding
out he is not like the cowboys she knows. He’s real and he’s not
playing. “Sometimes the most amazing things are right in front of
us, but we never see them.” Rachel’s heart starts to feel again
but her head and pride say “ No.” Can Rachel allow God to mend her
broken heart? Will she continue to punish herself and be left
alone and miss the opportunity to love and be loved?
Will Rachel stop hiding and embrace the love many want to give her. Can she embrace the redeeming love that will change her from the inside out. God wants all of her past and present.
This was definitely a feel good book.
I totally enjoyed Rachel and her friends lives. This is a story of
healing, love and restoration. Treat yourself to a good time
cowboy style!
~Reviewed by Nora St. Laurent http://novelreviews.blogspot.com/
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