Windswept

Orphaned at the age of ten, Laura OConnor is swept from ahaphazard home-life into a neighbors family before she can cometo terms with her mothers death. Grace Lindsey welcomes herwith open arms and an open heart. Content with life as it is, SamLindsey has no good reason to refuse Laura a home other thanhis dislike for her mother and an avowed aversion to watching hiswife risk the devastation of yet another loss. Personalities clash asGrace and Sams son, David, enters the picture, stirring in Lauraa host of feelings complicated as she matures by the family situationand her friendship with his wife. Desperate for a way out, herlife spirals downward into a series of irreversible choices that leaveher disillusioned, disheartened, and afraid she has compromisedlove and home even as they come looking for her. Windswept is the opening novel of a series in three parts thatfollows the Lindsey family as they grapple with the bonds offamily, the power of forgiveness, and the capacity of love to healand transform.