Window of Peace: Stained Glass Legacy, book 2

By Regina Rudd Merrick

Description:

Michael Connor “MC” Dunne led charmed life. He had a plan—finish veterinary school, get married, and take over the local animal clinic. Enter the Vietnam War.

MC returns home, injured, to Park Haven, Tennessee, and soon learns there’s a new vet in town, hired when the local veterinarian suffered a heart attack. So much for his plan.

Violent flashbacks and nightmares pull MC away from his faith and turn him into a hermit. His safe place is the family farm, working on the old cabin and restoring the chapel his great-uncle built in the early 1900s, with the family’s heirloom stained-glass window.

Nancy Jean Baker struggles to prove herself as a competent veterinarian to the small-town skeptics of Park Haven. Fighting her own demons from a traumatic past, she’s driven to succeed.

But when war veteran MC Dunne returns home, wounded and wary, Nancy discovers she’s standing between him and his dream.

Can they help each other overcome their hurts and horrors? Or is their hope of happiness doomed when the past threatens to ruin their future?

Book Takeaway:

God loves us when we can't feel Him, and even when we blame Him for the troubles in our lives. The characters in this book have suffered through much abuse and trouble. One finds her faith strengthened, while the other's faith falters. God never promised a life free of trouble, but He did promise that He would walk beside his children through anything.

Why the author wrote this book:

Window of Peace is book 2 in the Stained Glass Legacy series, the result of a 2019 brainstorming session with three other authors at a writing retreat. Four books, four authors, four time periods, and one family. Book 1 is set in 1920, this book in 1970, book 3 is in the present day, and book 4 takes place in a dystopian future.