God's Will

By Meghan M Gorecki

Description:

Kathy Andrews is good at goodbyes. Her mother is sent to a sanatorium, her sister, left behind in Chicago, and her father, forced to roam looking for work. So she holds close to the only one she has left, her brother Danny. When the two go to live with the Marshalls in the sleepy town of Brighton, she doesn't let anyone past hello. Elliott Russell frowns at his aunt and uncle's generosity--even though he and his sister are on the receiving end. He frowns, too, at the uppity city girl with a chip on her shoulder whom he can't get out of his head. When a tragedy rips apart what tenuous existence they manage to forge, will they find the sweetest place to be is in God's will--or will they turn their backs on faith that fails to protect against pain?

Why the author wrote this book:

Writing this book was cathartic for me as I went through dealing with chronic pain in the form of hip dysplasia, my mother diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and our family being somewhat shaken by all these diagnoses entailed, along with a job change for our breadwinner, a surgery for a brother, all within a five year period. Wrestling with God's will in real life showed me a make or break decision to either walk away from or embrace the faith I was raised with as my own. I wouldn't trade those learning, tumultuous years for the world.