Kirjahaku

Twenty-four-year-old Robert Barlow lost his wife six years into their young marriage at the hands of his competitors. It was the worst pain he had ever experienced. Becky was the love of his life. Unable to bear the pain of her absence, he gave up on the God he once believed in, vowed never to forgive himself and buried himself in his work. He builds a massive construction empire that rivals anything his competitors could have imagined.Held captive by the guilt over his wife's death, he has no desire to love again. Now, contemplating early retirement at the age of fifty, he has an unexpected surprise. A simple, but beautiful country girl named Chasidy, waltzes into his life, changing everything. He doesn't understand why he is so drawn to her. What does she possess that no other woman has?Can Robert overcome his resentment toward God to embrace a new life with Chasidy? Or will the ghosts from the past continue to haunt him?

Family is Everything to Alan Ferguson. Which was evident when he ran away from the Chiricahua Children's Home at the age of ten in search of his family. People who looked like him. Born to an interracial couple, he didn't meet many people who did. He was only twelve when he met the boy on a leisurely fishing outing one summer day. He was immediately drawn to him. So much so that he left the good people who took him in and their beautiful home to live under a railroad trestle just to be near him. He didn't understand it. The Marshalls were good to him. The boy looked nothing like him. But something about him felt right. Alan knew he had to get back to Rob Barlow. It was an unexplainable love at first sight for the boys that started a relationship that lasted an entire lifetime. They became inseparable even through Alan's torment of being bullied at school where he was branded a Trussel Rat, a forbidden love that left him devastated when his first and only love, Michell Peterson was suddenly ripped away from him, and a horrific heartbreaking tragedy that caused Rob to become a broken man for the next twenty-six years, the death of his beloved Becky. The one thing they knew they would always have is each other. Together they would conquer and not be conquered

"Life is good in The Grove," he thought. "The worst is finally over." Settling in at home after traveling the world over with his new wife Chasidy, Barlow is happier than he has ever been in his life. He has grown in his spiritual relationship with The Entity. He looks forward to their time together as he meditates and communes with Him in the peacefulness of The Grove. Barlow has come to realize that he was never promised a life without pain and disappointment. But rather, in the midst of them, The Entity is always with him. His spiritual journey has taught him many things about The Entity. The most important being that The Entity never gave up on him, even when he gave up on The Entity. But when a horrific tragedy strikes his family again, will Barlow regress back into his weakened state of darkness? Or will he cling to the faith that was restored to him?

Family is Everything to Alan Ferguson. Which was evident when he ran away from the Chiricahua Children's Home at the age of ten in search of his family. People who looked like him. Born to an interracial couple, he didn't meet many people who did. He was only twelve when he met the boy on a leisurely fishing outing one summer day. He was immediately drawn to him. So much so that he left the good people who took him in and their beautiful home to live under a railroad trestle just to be near him. He didn't understand it. The Marshalls were good to him. The boy looked nothing like him. But something about him felt right. Alan knew he had to get back to Rob Barlow. It was an unexplainable love at first sight for the boys that started a relationship that lasted an entire lifetime. They became inseparable even through Alan's torment of being bullied at school where he was branded a Trussel Rat, a forbidden love that left him devastated when his first and only love, Michell Peterson was suddenly ripped away from him, and a horrific heartbreaking tragedy that caused Rob to become a broken man for the next twenty-six years, the death of his beloved Becky. The one thing they knew they would always have is each other. Together they would conquer and not be conquered

Twenty-four-year-old Robert Barlow lost his wife six years into their young marriage at the hands of his competitors. It was the worst pain he had ever experienced. Becky was the love of his life. Unable to bear the pain of her absence, he gave up on the God he once believed in, vowed never to forgive himself and buried himself in his work. He builds a massive construction empire that rivals anything his competitors could have imagined.Held captive by the guilt over his wife's death, he has no desire to love again. Now, contemplating early retirement at the age of fifty, he has an unexpected surprise. A simple, but beautiful country girl named Chasidy, waltzes into his life, changing everything. He doesn't understand why he is so drawn to her. What does she possess that no other woman has?Can Robert overcome his resentment toward God to embrace a new life with Chasidy? Or will the ghosts from the past continue to haunt him?