Matchmaker Payback

By Roger E. Bruner

Description:

Soon after the premature death of Agnes Jenkins’ husband, she starts trying to set up “match-dates” for her single, mid-thirties daughter, Jessie, with totally unsuitable men. She wants Jessie to marry while she’s young enough to enjoy a longer lifetime of happiness than she’d had with Phil.

But Agnes refuses to accept the fact that Jessie doesn’t want or need her help. Nothing Jessie tries can make her mother quit interfering in her love life.

After years of being out of touch with her forever best friend El, Jessie runs into him again unexpectedly. Their friendship soon turns into a serious romance.

Agnes almost stops matchmaking. But when she learns that El belongs to a different denomination from hers and Jessie’s, she resumes her matchmaking efforts in earnest.

El’s mother convinces Agnes to obtaining counseling. Ostensibly for Agnes to learn how to make Jessie drop El and accept her help. But actually so Jessie and El can get the counselor to help them end her mother's matchmaking. What can they do when they discover he can’t play both sides of the fence?

Jessie needs to make her mother understand how her interference makes Jessie feel. And what better way to do that than for Jessie to punish her mother by attempting to matchmake her with a series of totally unsuitable men? Just as her mother had done to her.

That type of matchmaker payback has its drawbacks, however. As does the undesirable appearance of an equally undesirable woman from El’s past.

How can Jessie and El work their way through their various problems and finally reach the alter?

Book Takeaway:

Christians working together can solve the most irritating of problems and heal relationships in the process. Love and forgiveness trump resentment.

Why the author wrote this book:

I went to sleep one night in February 2021 frustrated that I didn't feel I was accomplishing anything. I woke up the next morning with this book idea in mind. Although I began writing it, God led me to a different book. Once I wrote that one, He led me back to this one with some major changes to the overall concept. I was thrilled to have something I would enjoy working on.