Gracious Love

By Jeri Stockdale

Description:

Nellie’s beliefs about a woman’s place in society are challenged when she must find employment to save her family’s home, and unexpectedly encounters opposition by local businessmen. She is thrilled when Jacob McKenzie agrees to hire her for his furniture shop, but is wary of the stirrings he raises within her heart, feelings she thought long buried.

Jacob McKenzie, a woodworker, is determined to make his furniture shop a success. With a painful past and no family nearby, he delves into his work as the one meaningful part of his life. When he meets and hires Nellie for his shop, he must reconcile what he had accepted as God’s plan, and the reawakening her presence has brought to his soul.

As Jacob and Nellie work together, they learn to laugh and enjoy life again, but will the hope they glimpse for a brighter future be destroyed by the unscrupulous Edward Hanley, a man determined to ruin them both?

Book Takeaway:

As we grow our faith through our circumstances, we often find that certain ideas and beliefs we thought were from God, were of our own making. By being open to His gracious love and truth, we learn in our journey and end up at His destination for us.

Why the author wrote this book:

Many will relate to my characters’ struggles, how they wrestled with applying their faith to their circumstances, and had the courage to change their thinking through God's gracious love.