Small Town Roads

By L B Johnson

Description:

From the Amazon #1 Best Selling Author of "Saving Grace - A Story of Adoption" and "The Book of Barkley - Love and Life Through the Eyes of a Labrador Retriever". Let go of the life you wanted to get the one that you were meant for. With a fresh college degree in Criminal Justice and big future dreams, young Rachel Raines is looking for a temporary place to hide a heart full of loss and a quieter police patrol than Chicago, The bequest of her late aunt's house seems like the perfect opportunity for both if she can survive the gigantic spiders, creaky plumbing, and inevitable challenges of being the rookie on a small town force.  It's a place unlike any she has lived in - a tiny rural town with no coffee baristas, no night life, and one single restaurant that has a giant cow perched on the roof. It was not the life she had expected. Sometimes God has other plans for us. Down the street, her aunt's best friend, Evelyn Ahlgren, marks the passing of seasons and neighbors, long mired in her loneliness as a widow. When the young woman with scars of her own befriends her, they strike up an unlikely friendship across generations that just might help them both heal with a little help from heaven above. With L.B. Johnson's reflective, lyrical writing style and moments of deep-seated humor, Small Town Roads is a beautifully told, heartwarming story of finding the best in people, including ourselves, in the most unlikely of places.

Book Takeaway:

Small Town Roads is a loving story about an old, slow place where the terrible loneliness of grief eases because ordinary people decide to become community.

Why the author wrote this book:

After two memoirs that were #1 best sellers, I wanted to write a book that summed up the Christian values and work ethic handed to me by my family. With the recent death of my Stepmom, who married Dad when my mom passed away while I was in college, as well as the sudden death of my only brother, I wanted a book that my 96-year-old Dad could savor in his final days. The story is not my life, but the values indeed are.