Second Chances Books
All is not well in Paradise. In fact, when Jayne's fiance dumps her for his high school sweetheart, the eastern Oregon town doesn't feel a bit like paradise. But Jayne has a teaching contract, and she's never been a quitter. Besides, the kids in her kindergarten classroom need her.
Widowed Gwen Sullivan has never worked outside the home and isn't sure she's ready to. But faced with an empty house when her daughter leaves for college, she reluctantly takes a job for an interior designer. The characters who hang around the criminal defense attorney's office upstairs are creepy, her boss is unpleasant, her tasks are menial-but eventually Gwen gains enough confidence in her instincts to take on a design client of her own. And helping Oliver Black transform a derelict downtown building into a safe haven for street kids does more for her than she could have imagined. . . .
Written in first-person, memoir style, this is the heart-touching story of Cass Maxwell, a girl struggling to find her identity during the turbulent sixties and seventies. Forced to make her own way from childhood, Cass's strength of spirit lifts her above her circumstances as God calls her to a life of hope and freedom.
Dora Chase is an eighty-year-old widow whose family finds her frustratingly independent. Armando Garcia is a young man who has a propensity for taking the easy way--even if it means flirting with crime. When they meet, neither realizes how much their lives will be changed. Together this unlikely pair journeys toward hope and healing.
For a young widow, the stone mansion she once dreamed of owning offers the promise of a new beginning.