[bksvol-discuss] Just submitted the Emilie Richards' Books
- From: "Donna Smith" <donnafsmith@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 15:01:01 -0400
Both are about 460 pages and scanned from the hard-cover versions, so the
quality of the scan needs little work. These should fall within the
Christian Romance genre. Here's more about each book:
Wedding Ring
Book 1 of the Shenandoah Album Series. THREE GENERATIONS OF WOMEN DISCOVER
THE HEALING GIFT OF FAMILY, MEMORIES AND LOVE,,.
Tessa MacCrae feels as if she's facing a prison sentence when she
reluctantly agrees to spend the summer helping her mother and grandmother
clean out and repair the old family home in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.
She is prepared for inevitable anger and tension-the only emotional bonds
they've ever shared. The three women have never been close, but Tessa hopes
that time away from her husband-no matter how trying-will help her find the
answers she desperately seeks and come to a decision about her failing
marriage.
At first the summer is filled with all-too-familiar emotional storms. Helen,
the family matriarch, is domineering, sharp-tongued and incapable of sharing
feelings-except negative ones. Widowed at a young age, she has struggled her
whole life, hanging on to the family farm by sacrificing everything,
particularly love. Fiercely independent, Helen resents her daughter and
granddaughter's intrusion, too angry to admit that she needs their help.
Nancy, Tessa's mother, appears to be little more than a hand-wringing social
climber, who spends her days entertaining and courting Richmond's wealthy
elite. What Tessa can't see is the woman so ashamed of her roots and
desperate for acceptance that she would do anything to be loved, or the
anxious wife trying to hold on to a marriage on which she has never had a
firm grasp.
But with the passing weeks, each of their lives begins to change. Here in
her grandmother's house, Tessa comes face-to-face with the family and the
history that has shaped her. As Tessa restores a tattered wedding-ring quilt
pieced by her grandmother and quilted by her mother years ago, the secrets
that have shadowed their lives unfold in a drama of discovery, hope and
healing. For the first time, Tessa can look past the years of resentment and
regret and see her mother and grandmother for the flawed but courageous
women they are.
Through days of hard work, simple living and the determination to repair the
torn fabric of their own lives, Tessa, Nancy and Helen will discover that
what was lost can be found again-if they look deeply into their hearts.
Endless Chain
The second book in the Shenandoah Album series: It's not easy to hope for
the future When you're still running from the past.
Sam Kinkade is finally feeling at home as a minister in rural Toms Brook,
Virginia, is
reasonably content with his life and Shenandoah Valley congregation. But his
plans to welcome the area's growing Hispanic community to the church are
suddenly met with resistance. Fortunately, when La Casa Amarilla, the
church-run community center, is threatened, a stranger named Elisa Martinez
walks through his door and Sam realizes he has found a woman capable of
building bridges.
Elisa is an enigma. Although she slowly becomes involved in the {community
center, Sam is certain from her guarded manner that she is hiding something.
Yet despite their growing friendship, Elisa won't discuss her past. Sam is
intrigued with this Latina stranger, a woman who, despite the differences in
their backgrounds, makes him only too aware of the intimacy missing in his
life.
Elisa isn't looking to make friends, let alone put down roots. She has come
to hide. But despite {her fears of discovery she is enchanted by the
beautiful work and the friendship offered by the church women who invite her
to join their quilting circle, and even though she fears the consequences
for both of them, she finds herself powerfully drawn to Sam.
A union that may set her free, Elisa is captivated by a generations-old love
story. Will she and Sam repeat the past, or can they find the love and the
freedom they seek at last? With
the warmth and comfort of a hand-made quilt, Endless Chain-an exploration of
the intricate patterns of family and community, and the threads that bind
them together--will envelop and welcome readers into the richness -of life
in the Shenandoah Valley.
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