Cynthia Collins

"REDEMPTIVE BEAUTY"...healing the layers of trauma of the past, hurts of the present...with radiant hope. What if we could look back to look forward? This time, looking back we find healing of deep wounds and see our true calling, identity, worth, purpose, a fire and passion to live again. What if we are no longer identified or are known by our mistakes, self inflicted wounds or the wounding of others? This is Redemptive Beauty. A place where the wounds of the past...are used to produce a life beyond healing and transformed by our Creator for His original purposes.

A teenage girl whose brother is lost at sea...the diary of a nineteenth-century woman...and the special place that binds them. Lisa Duncan, a seventeen-year-old high school senior, has an assignment to tour historic Mirabelle Manor, a large estate built in 1850 by a sea captain for his wife. During the tour, she begins to suspect that Mirabelle's ghost is watching her. One of the items on display is a diary, open to a passage about going to a place called the unicorn tree to watch for ships. This appeals to Lisa whose brother is currently sailing across the Atlantic on a commemorative voyage. When news arrives that his ship is lost at sea, her interest in the diary deepens as the past and present lead her to discover what happened.