Tender Shadows

By Ann Gaylia O'Barr

Description:

Caught between the guilt of the past and present choices, might they find what they long for most forgiveness and love? When Beth Wilhite s U.S. State Department job assigns her to an uncaring Washington, D.C. following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, her intense loneliness leads her to make decisions that clash with her values. Then she receives a new assignment to the Middle Eastern kingdom of Al Hajar and a chance to serve with an old friend, Joe Harlan, widowed a few years before. Can she overcome the grip of past choices? Not yield to them again? Can Joe accept what she s done...and move beyond, perhaps even to loving her? Joe s daughter, Annie, working under Beth at the U.S. embassy, deals with her own secret choice. And the young diplomat, Palestinian-American David Antony, struggles with traumatic stress because of a choice he made earlier in Iraq. Yet Annie and David are inexplicably drawn toward each other. Together, might this thrown-together community find courage to live out his or her individual calling...for such a time as this? And find a forever love? Experience the power of choices...and real-life love.

Why the author wrote this book:

To illustrate the conflict experienced by Christian career women between the standards taught in their faith and those of the world in which they work.