Publisher's Synopsis
How can she let go of the past when she is forced to confront it?
Kidnapped by her father at two years old, Lane Steen never imagines she is living a lie until a new schoolteacher, Edith Wallace, comes to Valley Creek. Yet Edith is more than a schoolteacher. She is part of the past--a past hidden in a mysterious dream that has haunted Lane since childhood.
At sixteen, Lane yearns to escape from her embittered father's hatred that engulfs her home. The schoolhouse is Lane's only escape. Carefully, Edith works to earn Lane's friendship, but love and trust doesn't come easy for a heart plagued by hate. But then the truth shatters Lane's world.
The truth sends Lane on a turbulent search into the past. Leaving Valley Creek behind, Lane reunites with a family she cannot remember--a family that surpasses her wildest dreams. A family that belongs to her.
Despite her newfound joy, her hatred for her father only deepens. Although she desires to experience the faith of her family, Lane can't cast away one thing she holds closely: the hatred that helped her survive.
Digging into her father's unbelievable past, she confronts the story behind her father's ruin. Will she always be bound by hate?
Yet something even stronger binds her. Something stronger than her family, something stronger than her will. She is bound to Valley Creek, the place of her stormy childhood, the place of the man she loves, but more importantly, the place of God's calling. Ironically, she finds love, purpose, grace, and forgiveness in a place she'd sought all her life to escape.
