Love from the Crucible

What is love? Mary Dyck, a lonely young woman, was oppressed by the burden of herimagination. Her friend Susan was about to be engaged. Jason, the neighbor boy, had found a semblance of love in alcohol. Her father, a preacher, had numbed all feeling in order to fulfill his love for his church. Mary began to examine her life. What if there is something more? Her soul was parched for truth. What was it? Sudden death arrived like a lightning bolt flashing in the tempest. A new flowering hope appeared in Abe, a handsome young man with romance on his mind. He seemed perfect. Yet, lurking within his soul was a deeply personal secret. The tragedy of the past began to unfold even as new love was born in the life of Mary, and in the heart of her niece, Lyla.Still, the problem of Jason, the simmering cauldron of family turmoil, and the constant specter of despair threatened to overwhelm her soul. Could Mary find the strength to hold onto her newfound faith? Contemporary/Christian/Fiction