Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, While loving someone deeply gives you courage. -Lao Tzu Kayla Morrison, an LDS young single adult, grew up in an unloving, verbally abusive home. It's no wonder she's skeptical when charming, successful Chris Christensen brings up love on their first date. Making things worse, her former fianc shows up later and claims Chris doesn't love her. Meanwhile Kayla's father drops the bomb that he's not her real father. And then he dies, setting Kayla on an arduous quest to discover who she really is, and if she's worthy of anyone's love. Along the way she establishes new friendships and treasures current friends. But will the drama of her friends and family strengthen her, or will it cause her to withdraw back to her destructive beginnings? Renewal is the continuing story of love and friendship in the Hope and Healing Series. It is a story of redemption and faith in the Savior, Jesus Christ.
Lydia Blankenship and her husband, Jim, lost their own little girl years ago to a medical mishap. It took Lydia nearly thirty years to stop hating the nurse who administered the wrong medicine. Now, she and Jim are once again in parental bliss as the legal guardians for Lydia's charming five-year-old grandniece, Gracie. The girl's mother, however-recently released from prison for drug-related theft-plots to kidnap the little girl and run. Lydia's happy days with her grandniece are quickly threatened, along with her tranquil marriage. The law is on Lydia's side, but her niece, Nicole, has years of experience sidestepping the law. When Lydia turns to her friends to help thwart her niece, they support her crazy antics. When she turns to God, she doesn't like the answers. Is Lydia a match for a conspiring ex-con? Is a conspiring ex-con a match for Lydia? Deliverance is a story of scheming, intrigue, and overcoming fear. Most of all it is a love story and the third book in the Hope & Healing Series.
