After spending three years in a Texas prison on drug charges, Katie Smith is released to rebuild her life. Full of optimism, she sets out to get a job, rent her own place, and make a home for her eight-year-old daughter, whom she had to give away. She could use a friend, but her past choices threaten to doom her to continued failure.
\nLarry Pullman graduated from seminary with high marks, but the fact that he has no wife makes finding a preaching job almost impossible. It doesn’t help that running from God as a teenager gave him a past that he can’t undo. He sure doesn’t need an ex-con drug addict messing up his life, but then why did God lead him to her? Or did He?
\nNow Lacey Chandler has to cope with her ex-con sister too. Isn’t it enough that she gave her niece a home? Does that mean she has to clean up Katie’s messes forever? Why is forgiving such a burden?<\/p>\n
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