Judy D. -
Book 2 in the Charity House series
Hannah Southerland was disowned and asked to leave her legalistic father's home five years ago. Now that she was an actress, the good Reverend would have more reason to have nothing to do with her. Hannah was blessed that she had found herself in the presence of Patience and Reginald O'Toole all those years ago. They taught her acting, money management and to stay focused on the Lord. Their rogue of a son, Tyler, was a bit more rebellious. When her twin sister, Rachel, came to see her Hannah hoped they could finally resolve the past. Hannah had always covered for Rachel and took the blame for her actions, which had her disowned. Instead of reconciling her sister takes off with Tyler the second day she is there. With the O'Toole's overseas Hannah's only choice is to search out their son the Reverend Beau O'Toole to help find the rebellious couple.
Beau has been sitting with his mother's old friend, Jane Goodwin. Once a beautiful actress now dying in a brothel. When the beautiful Hannah Southerland appears he can only see her as an actress with Jane's future and treats her so, condemns her to a life like Jane's before he knows her at all.
When they see how the other acts at Charity House, a home for children of the prostitutes, they each see a different side of the other. And after searching for their errant siblings other ideas come about. Beau thought he needed a steady old fashioned wife to fit in with his perfect church. Hannah could see the ministry he already had going to the saloons, brothels and other places those deemed non-sinners should not go to. To top it off, his new church that was to be built in Greely was in the hands of her father, the Reverend Thomas Southerland.
Two people floating through life, judged by not being as people thought they should be, can their faith anchor them and can they see what they are searching for in each other?
Hannah Southerland was disowned and asked to leave her legalistic father's home five years ago. Now that she was an actress, the good Reverend would have more reason to have nothing to do with her. Hannah was blessed that she had found herself in the presence of Patience and Reginald O'Toole all those years ago. They taught her acting, money management and to stay focused on the Lord. Their rogue of a son, Tyler, was a bit more rebellious. When her twin sister, Rachel, came to see her Hannah hoped they could finally resolve the past. Hannah had always covered for Rachel and took the blame for her actions, which had her disowned. Instead of reconciling her sister takes off with Tyler the second day she is there. With the O'Toole's overseas Hannah's only choice is to search out their son the Reverend Beau O'Toole to help find the rebellious couple.
Beau has been sitting with his mother's old friend, Jane Goodwin. Once a beautiful actress now dying in a brothel. When the beautiful Hannah Southerland appears he can only see her as an actress with Jane's future and treats her so, condemns her to a life like Jane's before he knows her at all.
When they see how the other acts at Charity House, a home for children of the prostitutes, they each see a different side of the other. And after searching for their errant siblings other ideas come about. Beau thought he needed a steady old fashioned wife to fit in with his perfect church. Hannah could see the ministry he already had going to the saloons, brothels and other places those deemed non-sinners should not go to. To top it off, his new church that was to be built in Greely was in the hands of her father, the Reverend Thomas Southerland.
Two people floating through life, judged by not being as people thought they should be, can their faith anchor them and can they see what they are searching for in each other?
