Georgie’s mind threatens to go walkabout, and she’d better get help soon if she’s to stop her daughter from taking over. Enter granddaughter, Jeminy, a songwriter from L.A., and Eric, her lawyer.
Jeminy hates herself and is pretty sure God does, too. There’s that huge unforgiveable sin, plus the boyfriend/manager who dumped her and lost her a music deal. Her mistakes. Her fault.
When Mother plots to tuck Nana Georgie neatly into a nursing home to gain access to Nana’s money, Jeminy hightails it out of L.A. and back to Beaufort. God may still hate her in North Carolina, but at least she’ll be on hand to protect her beloved grandmother.
Enter Eric, the lawyer hired to help Georgie protect herself–and possibly Jeminy, too. But Eric just rescued his orphaned stepson from Social Services, and while he’s adept at legal briefs and courtroom dramas, classrooms and angry second graders are brand new territory.
Guitar in hand, Jeminy tries to write songs to jumpstart her flagging career, but when someone threatens her life, she has to ask why. Could it have to do with the money missing from her bank accounts (and maybe her unstable ex)? If she prays for help, will God even listen to someone with her baggage?
With the help of the Beaufort crew, a new father and a terrified musician struggle to safeguard everyone they love, but it’s going to take more than good neighbors to show each of them the true meaning of grace.
My Rating:
Favorite Quote:
Jeminy had always been like sunshine sneaking in under the porch eaves on a winter’s day.
My Review:
I struggled with this one as my personal preference is to avoid conservative religious themes as I find them wearisome and exasperating, and this installment featured more droning of those issues than the rest of the series combined. Given the current irksome narrowing of these hot button issues, I should have stopped reading when these complications became apparent or when the polarizing stance in opposition to my personal position on a woman’s freedom of choice first became annoying as the heavily repeated judgmental tone became increasingly tedious and tiresome and overrode the pleasure and interest I had with the other storylines.
Despite our differing views, I still found Ms. Fischer’s writing to be top-notch and emotive, and I did appreciate the perceptive and thoughtfully written story threads of an elderly woman struggling with family and memory loss, the creative use of an emetic agent against a villain, and catching up with the characters from the previous installments.
About the Author
She writes Southern women’s fiction and romantic suspense from her waterfront base in coastal North Carolina, where she lives with her husband, her aging mother, two dogs and two cats.