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a moving novel entwining the many faces of motherly love... jillian cline has the perfect daughter: loving and smart, she's an olympic hopeful with a bright future. but when izzy becomes pregnant,. jillian fears that future is lost. worse, she must confront her own secret past and hope the decisions she's made don't drown their whole. izzy can't believe god let this happen to her. she knew the risks, but who thinks about that when they're in love? now she has to face. the consequences--and the disappointed stares from everyone who thought she was the perfect christian gi*l. at least she has the. margaret owens had determined dreams for her son. she's furious that izzy's pregnancy jeopardizes his college baseball scholarship and. terrified that travis will be trapped in a life of struggle and poverty--the life she's tried so hard to save him from. she'll do. anything to protect him--even if it means forcing him to leave izzy.. stacey frey is aching for a child of her own. but the son she was meant to adopt was taken before she could hold him in her arms. it. feels like she'll never stop mourning; even the move to this new town hasn't distracted her from the pain. how can she and her husband find. and in the midst of all this. .. an unborn baby. whose arms will hold him in the end?. recommend. in a realistic and thought-provoking way, it shines the light on emotional themes of te*n pregnancy, abortion, infertility,. i grew up loving women’s fiction and have long been frustrated at the lack of these stories in christian fiction. with the release of. – right up there with cynthia ruchti and kellie coates gilbert.. the use of four different voices works very well – mothers of soon-to-be-parent te*ns (jillian and margaret), the te*nage gi*l. herself (izzy), and an infertile young woman (stacey) – and gives insight into all their thoughts and struggles in a personal way. this. story plumbs the depths of almost every emotion imaginable and i never wanted to put it down. guilt, regret, and fear are major themes –.