Ribbons of Guilt

By Laura Thomas

Description:

“A marriage in crisis. A betrayer in the wings. A life at stake.

Harriet Duval has it all—a handsome French husband, a delightful young daughter, a successful career as a professional ballerina behind her, and a beautiful future in a charming village in the English countryside. Even her beloved sisters can’t see the painful truth she hides beneath her perfect mask…

Successful businessman Leo Duval is at a breaking point physically, emotionally, and spiritually as he is forced to harbor secrets in Paris while his marriage in England dissolves before his very eyes.

The magnetic pull of Harriet’s old dancing life and the shocking murder of a Swan Lake ballerina causes her to question everything: faith, future, family. When the killer begins targeting the Duval family, Leo and Harriet’s vulnerable marriage is tested by an unimaginable traumatic event. Will the guilt they carry divide them when they need each other most?”

Book Takeaway:

“When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.” C. S. Lewis

As Lewis so eloquently implies, when we put God first and above all, we are better able to love our “earthly dearest”, our spouse, our partner. This is something Harriet and Leo discover the hard way. Returning to their first love was not only finding their way back to each other—it meant finding their way back to God. The One who IS love.

Why the author wrote this book:

For the first time, I felt compelled to write a Christian romantic suspense featuring a married couple—a story with a message of hope and healing in a marriage relationship.