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Love – Can it be demanded, bought, manipulated by pity or guilt? Even if we know the answer to that, how often do we venture onto the superficial path? Will the offers of real love be seized? The juxtaposition in passionate character development along with the descriptive dive into the depths of inner struggles for love enlighten the psyche. Yet these master sketches grow out of a homespun backdrop gardening, canning, baking, quilting, training the generation to come and dealing with daily stress in personal interaction with prickly personalities.

This 6th book in the series is a glimpse back in time to when Marcia, Andrew’s Mother and Stewart’s wife, abandoned them. She was a character in Sunshine and Shadows who refused to play her bit part and depart. She re-appeared in one book and is one of the major characters in this one. At 90+ years of age Marcia Holland comes back to interfere in the lives of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Though Marcia has not cared about any of them before, now she is dying in loneliness and desperately attempts to possess the love of her great grandchildren, Katie being the oldest of them. Faith, the granddaughter through Andrew and Gloria Richards, is pinched and crowded by Marcia’s demands, her difficult mother-in-law, and some independent teen-aged children of her own. Will Marcia scorn the one love she really needs? Will the difficult mother-in-law Patricia also scorn the gospel? Might either Marcia or Patricia see their own foolishness in the other and grasp the good news? The setting of the story is divided between the Wisconsin farm (Steeple in the Distance and Called Katie Belle) and California where Marcia Holland resides.

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379 pages, 6 x 9" softcover

Also available at the CLC Bookhouse (www.clcbookhouse.org) and Amazon.

$14.00 USD