Jaded: A Novel by Varina Denman is the 1st in her Mended Hearts series of contemporary literary/women's fiction personal drama novels with romantic elements set in a small Texas town and dealing with some of the more insular attitudes found there-in, this installment starring a woman once shunned by the local congregation, who develops a relationship with the new preacher, which in turn causes tensions among the community, free courtesy of Christian publisher David C. Cook.
This is being made free to promote the newly-released 2nd-in-series,
Justified, which just came out today.
Currently free, probably just for the next couple of days
B&N (also
UK),
Amazon (available to Canadians & in the
UK),
iTunes &
Google Play (both available to Canadians), and also
ChristianBook (DRM-Free ePub available to selected countries), can be added to your library @
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publisher's catalogue page.
Description
As a child, Ruthie was shunned by the local congregation. Thirteen years later, Ruthie’s heart begins to stir when an attractive single preacher arrives. But their relationship is bitterly opposed—unearthing a string of secrets which threaten to turn the church, the town, and her world upside-down.
Jaded is the rare novel that is both love story between a woman and man ... and God and His church. Plunging deep into the waters of shame, forgiveness and restoration, it will resonate with every woman who’s experienced a loss of heart ... and a thirst for hope.