Return to Baragula

By Mary Hawkins

Description:

Emily Parker's actions as a teenager not only impacted her own life but the lives of many others.

Now, six years later, she returns reluctantly to her home town of Baragula only to discover the man at the heart of those actions, Matthew Davidson, is the community's respected doctor.

While Emily's faith is now severely weakened by all that has happened, Matthew's life has completely turned around since he committed his life to Christ. His personal relationship with God is tested when he discovers how his behaviour when a non-believer hurt so many, especially Emily, and feels responsible for her hardness of heart towards the Lord.
Disease attacks the community while danger from another source threatens Emily and her family. Through it all, will Matthew and Emily's faith be strong enough to forgive each other and put the past behind them?

Why the author wrote this book:

Young people can make wrong choices that affect not only their own life down over many years but like the ripples from a stone in a still pond will affect many other lives of those they love. I have personally know such Christian young people - and sadly, not all have the happy endings that we would like happen. True repentance is required by God to to experience His forgiveness and cleansing and be able to have an intimate fellowship with Him fully restored.