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Rebekah Graham has just opened a local scrapbooking store in the area. She is married to her husband, Patrick, and has two children: Pepper, an adopted daughter, and Reid, their son. Things are going smoothly for the first time in a long time in their lives, and they look forward to Rebekah’s latest venture into the scrapbooking business. Elise wanders in, at her husband’s urging, for Elise needs to make some new friends in this town. A reluctant scrapbooker, Elise is at first dismayed by Rebekah and the other local girls at the shop, who are a bit too friendly for her taste. Rebekah invites Elise to go horseback riding the next day, which she accepts. After near tragedy from a run-in with a cougar, they glimpse the strength and depth in character, and they become linked. Soon after, Elise intercepts an email that changes their course: Ted has accepted one last Army assignment in a perilous place, and he leaves for a three-month deployment. She is a single parent—again. Meanwhile, Reid wakes up his mom to tell her that Pepper is sick in the middle of the night. A trip to the doctor reveals that Pepper’s polycystic kidney disease has made her gravely ill—she needs a kidney transplant. Elise and Rebekah lean on each other for support during these tough times. Elise has to manage the boys’ adolescent skirmishes on her own and orchestrate day-to-day living. Rebekah organizes a search for a donor kidney, since Pepper is adopted and has no immediate match. Rebekah also has to deal with her son Reid’s resentment of the perceived favoritism between adopted daughter and “natural-born” son. This book paints a realistic portrait on many levels: the struggle of a family living with a grave diagnosis, the difficulties of the military family lifestyle, the general aches and pains of adolescence and the friendship call-of-duty. As each woman faces her fears, their faith in God pulls them through, with some surprising results. Publisher: WaterBrook Press |
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