Shades of Morning

by Schalesky, Marlo

• ISBN13: 9781601420251
• ISBN10: 1601420250
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2010-06-15
• Publisher: Multnomah

Summary

Marnie didnrs"t know much about miracles. Mistakes maybe. Accidents. And monstrous mess-ups. She knew a lot about those. But miracles? Those were for other people. Marnie Wittier has life just where she wants it. Quiet. Peaceful. No drama. A long way away from her past. In the privacy of her home, she fills a box with slips of paper, scribbled with her regrets, sins, and sorrows. But thatrs"s nobody elsers"s business. Her bookstore/coffee shop patrons, her employees, her friends from church-they all think shers"s the very model of compassion and kindness. Then Marniers"s past creeps into her present when her estranged sister dies and makes Marnie guardian of her fifteen-year-old son-a boy Marnie never knew existed. And when Emmit arrives, she discovers he has Down syndrome-and that shers"s woefully unprepared to care for him. Whatrs"s worse, she has to deal with Taylor Cole, her sisterrs"s attorney, a man Marnie once loved-and abandoned. As Emmit (and Taylor) work their way into her heart, Marnie begins to heal. But when pieces of her dismal past surface again, she must at last face the scripts of paper in her box, all the regrets and sorrows. Can she do it? Or will she run again?

Author Biography

MARLO SCHALESKY is the author of several acclaimed novels, including Christy Award winner Beyond the Night.  A graduate of Stanford University, Marlo also has a masters of theology from Fuller Theological Seminary.  She’s a regular columnist for Power for Living and lives with her husband, Bryan, and five children in California.