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carrie thigpen |
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Sometimes you think you know so much about a person, only to realize that you don’t know anything at all. For Shilo Gaines, this is a lesson she has to learn sooner rather than later. At eleven years old, Shilo and Candy Bell were inseparable. Shilo knew that Candy was having problems at home, but whatever it was, she felt that they could get through it together. Shilo never imagined that she would be without Candy, until one fateful day she went to her house and Candy and all of her things were gone. Fast forward to the present. Shilo is a smart, beautiful eighteen-year-old high school graduate on her way to college. Although she is excited about her future, she can’t help but think about her childhood friend and wonder, where is she? Shilo is about to get the answer to that question and more than she bargains for when Candy returns to the neighborhood. Can Shilo and Candy’s friendship make it through the bad times a second time? Or will Shilo lose Candy forever?
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As Ivy Freeman is thinking one morning of how things weren't going quite right in her life, she is determined to figure out where her troubles all started. After much thought, she comes to the conclusion that it must have been when she, as a little girl, confronts God, and cusses him out. As she continues to recall various life's incidents, she is unmistakably convinced that the sad experiences that have left deep emotional scars on her heart were bits of revenge from the Almighty. Especially when she is forced to raise a special needs child alone. When she takes a deeper look, however, Ivy realizes that what she thought were bad times in her life were really the very things that developed her into the strong-willed, independent woman that she desperately need to become. The very first step in her achieving this goal however was the hardest . . . which was learning to forgive herself. |
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