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Independent…or Alone?
Macy longed for independence her whole life. Maybe marrying Arthur to escape her home hadn’t been the best plan, but it seemed good enough at the time. Now, pregnant and abandoned in a diner far from anyone she knows, Macy must start life all over again. Relying on the mercy of the diner’s owners, she begins to put things back together. Macy must make her own decisions for the first time in her adult life—but it isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. And with the too-alluring Toby at her side instead of her husband, she’s discovering those decisions harder to make than ever.
All too soon the illusion of freedom comes crashing down when she realizes her family back home might lose everything if she doesn’t return. She’d married Arthur to get away from those responsibilities, so how can she face ending up where she started?
With her grandmother’s lessons on faith coming to mind again for the first time in years, Macy has to learn what freedom really is…and which road will lead her to where she ought to have been all along.
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If you want a contemporary read that gets down to the grittiness of real life then this is a book you don’t want to miss. It is a page turner from the get go and you won’t put it down until finished. It deals with the messiness of family secrets and bad choices that dictate the destiny of Macy, until she reaches out in Faith to the One who can help her make the right choices. It is written with depth, tenderness, and sensitivity and delves into abuse. The characters are realistic and I know this from experience. It will make you weep and leave you wanting a sequel. This is my first book by April McGowan, but I definitely want to read more. Her written word takes on a life of its own.
I received a complimentary copy from Whitefire Publishing. The honest review and opinions are my own and were not required.