Second in the Bradleyville Series

As a chalk-fingered child, I had worn my craving for
Mama's love on my sleeve. But as I grew, that craving
became cloaked in excuses and denial until slowly it
sank beneath my skin to lie unheeded but vital, like
the sinews of my framework. By the time I was a
teenager, I thought the gap between Mama and me
could not be wider.

And than Danny came along...

A splendidly colored sidewalk. Six-year-old
Celia presented the gift to her mother with pride—and
received only anger in return. Why couldn't Mama love her?
Years later, when once-in-a-lifetime love found Celia, her mother
opposed it. The crushing losses that followed drove Celia,
guilt-ridden and grieving, from her Bradleyville home.

Now thirty-five, she must return to nurse her father after a stroke.
But the deepest need for healing lies in the rift between mother and
daughter. God can perform such a miracle. But first Celia and Mama
must let go of the past—before it destroys them both.