About the book:
As Waters Gone By (Abingdon, May 2015)
How can a marriage survive when separated by hundreds of miles and impenetrable prison walls?
Emmalyn and Max Ross may have to endure the fight of their lives to mend the tattered fabric of their marriage. His actions ensured she could never be a mother and put him in prison, giving their relationship a court-mandated five-year time-out. On a self-imposed exile to beautiful but remote Madeline Island, one of the Apostle Islands of Lake Superior, Emmalyn has just a few months left to figure out if and how they can ever be a couple again.
Nudged along by the exuberant owner of the Wild Iris Inn and Café, a circle of misfit people in their small town, and a young girl who desperately needs someone to love her, Emmalyn restores an island cottage that could become a home and begins to restore her heart by learning what it means to love unconditionally. Yet even as hope begins to find a place within the cottage walls, Emmalyn still wonders if she’s ready for Max’s release. She may be able to rebuild a cottage, but can she rebuild a marriage?
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About the author:
Cynthia Ruchti has more than three decades of radio broadcast experience with
Heartbeat of the Home radio and currently serves as Professional Relations Liaison for American Christian Fiction Writers.
Find Cynthia online: website, Twitter, Facebook
My thoughts:
I wasn’t sure what to expect from this book. I’d never read anything by this author(though they sent me a complimentary copy of one of her other books which I’ll be reading) and didn’t know anything about her style. Wow. That’s what I have to say. This was very well written. I loved the characters and they had so much. . . . well character to them! Each one had a story to tell and I’m hoping to explore those stories in further books from her. Especially the story behind Boozy Unfortunate! What a name!
Okay so for this book. It just happened that the Sunday of church after I finished this book that our pastor was preaching on Rachel and Leah. Rachel and Leah are key to this book as well because it’s a defining moment when Emmalyn realizes that she is the Rachel in her story and not the Leah. You’ll understand more about that once you read the book, but it really is key.
Part of the reason it is so key is that Emmalyn is barren. She’s never been able to have children though she and her husband have surely tried and even had treatments and sought all kinds of specialists. She wonders if her obsession with children is what caused him to make his grave error one day. Said error left him serving five years in prison. And telling her he wanted a divorce and for her to quit contacting him. That’s a lot.
Now here she is months from his release from prison. She’s sold off practically everything to pay the bills. And now things get fun. She reacts out to contact him after years of silence. And learns that he is in contact with his former girlfriend who gave him a daughter. Something she could never do. And this daughter is now in danger of being gone from him forever. Can Emmalyn put aside her feelings against the other woman and her insecurity to help young Hope? Do she and her husband still have a future?
This is a wonderful book and one that I highly recommend you read. I’ve already passed it on for someone else to read my copy as well. Share the book love all around!!
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