The Restorer

By Sharon Hinck

Description:

Susan Mitchell needed a change-any kind of change. Nearly twenty years of marriage to her college sweetheart, Mark, had given her two teenagers and two grade-schoolers, along with miles of unmatched socks, sticky computers, and the ever-growing hum of sheer bedlam. When had she become so... insignificant? Hadn't God once had a plan for her?

Well, at least Mark had a plan: for and attic hideaway free of iPods and science projects and cookie crumbs. But before Susan can finish her first journal entry, she finds herself pulled through a portal into a world grappling for its soul and waiting for a promised Restorer. Someone does have a plan for her-one she never would have imagines. While she struggles to adapt to a foreign culture full of unfamiliar technologies and taboos, she faces unexpected battles, mind-poisoning enemies, and a profound spiritual journey. Her adventure will forever change her family, her faith, and how she experiences love-from the One.

Book Takeaway:

Even someone who feels ordinary or inadequate can fill a heroic role through God's strength.

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Why the author wrote this book:

I've always loved imaginative fantasy tales, and wanted to explore placing a middle-American mother in the role of heroine and "key-hole" character for an unusual storyworld. I know so many women who are confronted with challenges they didn't expect (a diagnosis of cancer, a child's learning disability, a parent's Alzheimers, a neighborhood's needs) and rise to fill a heroic role as they are needed. This story is a metaphor for any of those kinds of battles that modern women face.