Chapel Springs SurvivalBy Ane MulliganDescription:A mail-order bride, a town overrun with tourists, and illegal art ~ How on earth will Claire and Chapel Springs survive? With the success of her Operation Marriage Revival, life is good for Claire Bennett. That is until the mayor's brother blabs a secret: Claire's nineteen-year-old son, Wes, has married a Brazilian mail order bride one who is eight years older than him. When Claire tries to welcome her new daughter-in-law, she's ridiculed, rebuffed, and rejected. Loving this girl is like hugging a prickly cactus. Will Claire and her family survive her son's marriage? Lydia Smith is happily living alone and running her spa then the widow on the hill becomes a blushing bride. Along with her new marriage, she has a dream to expand her business by adding guest rooms. Things are going according to plan. That is, until her groom's adult son moves in on everything. Will her dream survive her stepson? From the first sighting of a country music star in Claire's gallery, The Painted Loon, to the visit of a Hollywood diva, Chapel Springs is inundated with stargazers, causing lifelong residents to flee the area. When her best friends, Patsy and Nathan, put their house on the market, Claire is forced to do something or lose the closest thing to a sister she s got. With her son's future at stake and the town looking to her to solve their problems, it's Claire who needs a guardian angel. Book Takeaway:Let go and let God. He's bigger than our problems and infinitely able! Why the author wrote this book:Revenge pure and simple. Our eldest son did what CLaire's son did. Okay, ours is older and a widower, but he didn't tell his mama until a year after the fact. And for that, I told him it was going in a book. And it did. |