Crossing Oceans

By Gina Holmes

Description:

Nothing deepens a stream like a good rain . . . or makes it harder to cross.

Jenny Lucas swore she’d never go home again. But life has a way of upending even the best-laid plans. Now, years after she left, she and her five-year-old daughter must return to her sleepy North Carolina town to face the ghosts she left behind. They welcome her in the form of her oxygen tank-toting grandmother, her stoic and distant father, and David, Isabella’s dad . . . who doesn’t yet know he has a daughter.

As Jenny navigates the rough and unknown waters of her new reality, the unforgettable story that unfolds is a testament to the power of love to change everything—to heal old hurts, to bring new beginnings . . . even to overcome the impossible.

(Similar in tone to: Hope Floats, Steel Magnolias, Terms of Endearment, Nicholas Sparks, Charles Martin, Karen Kingsbury …)

Book Takeaway:

The Christian walk always requires sacrifice, but the burdens we bear, we don't bear alone. Romans 8:10 . . . Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory that will be revealed in us later.

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Why the author wrote this book:

Honestly, an idea popped in my mind and I wanted to see how it played out ... a young mother who had cut all ties with her family, never told her child's father that he was a father and now she finds out she has only months to live. Would she be able to set aside her last chance at love to give her daughter what she needs to go on without her? Could I?