Search - Unanswered Prayers (Crystal Creek, Bk 21)

From the cover: The church deacons were scandalized when the young Reverend Howard Blake announced he'd given up and married that "painted woman," Eve Carmichael, and brought her back home to Crystal Creek. And not only was she a trashy, jaded-by-Hollywood, aspiring actress, she was pregnant.
Forty-odd years later, newly married Maggie Langley had no clue that her beloved mother was held in such comtempt by her hometown contemporaries. But during a vigil requiring supreme faith, Eva decided to pierce her daughter's cynicism with the astounding story of Blakes' stormy first year together - and apart.

The Preacher married a Floozy. The church deacons were scandalized when the young Rev. Howard Blake announced he'd up and married that "painted woman," Eva Carmichael, and brought her back home to Crystal Creek. And not only was she a trashy, jaded-by-Hollywood, aspiring actress, she was pregnant!!!