Brenna: A Christian Novel

ISBN-13: 9781490748818 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 368 str.

Paula Rae Wallace

Opis

Destitute, desperate, dysfunctional pretty well sum up Brenna Renee Hamilton's existence With a drug-abusing mother and no idea of who her father is, life goes from bad to worse. Taking responsibility for the other kids that keep coming as a result of her mother's continuing poor choices, Brenna's only hope of escaping and helping her siblings to kick free is through making good grades. Struggling to earn a degree in geology as she works jobs and the oversight at home, she gets into a legal jam. In a timely manner, she finds Christ as her Savior Trying to take a Creationist stance in the classroom doesn't help her with professors, where her grades barely stay respectable Even with the Lord, her dreams seem to shatter as she reaches Tulsa, Oklahoma, to apply for a job with a prestigious geological firm. Disastrous Even as she attempts to flee, the dream of making a home for her siblings sustains her. Can it be true what Candy Milton, the pastor's wife who led her to Christ, assured her? Can God really take the barren desert of her life and make it bloom? Find out. . . A stand-alone novel, Brenna will captivate to the end Follow her struggles through harsh realities As she seeks professional status, she also embarks upon a personal quest: to fill in the blanks of her life never supplied by her single mother And to help her 'siblings' on their personal odysseys