It is never too late to restore broken relationships
Sawyer
tells the story of three generations
of women shaped by an unsolved mystery
Mother-daughter relationships can be complicated. When
secrets from the past are involved, the best of intentions can be entirely
misunderstood. Bringing Maggie Home (WaterBrook/September
5, 2017/) by award-winning author Kim Vogel Sawyer explores the hearts of three
generations of women whose lives have been shaped by the 70-year-old unsolved
mystery of 3-year-old Maggie Blackwell.
Hazel DeFord was just 10 years old when her
younger sister Maggie vanished while they were picking blackberries one
afternoon. However, her guilt over the incident has shaped her entire life,
particularly in her relationship with her daughter Diane. Hazel’s inexplicable
eccentricities, unexplained overprotectiveness and constant paranoia drove a
wedge between the two women.
When Diane became a parent, she was
determined not to imitate the close hold her mother held on her. In fact, she
gave her daughter, Meghan, such free rein that Meghan sometimes questioned
whether her mother really loved her. Though neither woman had a good
relationship with their own mother, Meghan has built a cherished relationship
with her aging grandmother who lavishes her with attention and affection.
When a traffic accident forces Meghan to take
a leave of absence from her job as a cold case investigator, the three women
find themselves living under the same roof for the first time. In these close
quarters, the painful secrets and hidden traumas of their past are exposed. Will Meghan be
able to use her investigative prowess to solve what happened to Maggie, the
family mystery that has been haunting Hazel for 70 years? Will finding the
answers help all the women recover what’s been lost? Each woman must contend with the healing presence only
God can offer to restore deeply wounded relationships.
“I
hope readers will come away with a fresh realization it is never too late to
restore broken relationships,” Sawyer explains. “God is in the mending
business! He’s the Great Healer. Whether the scars are emotional or spiritual,
He wants us to be whole so we can trust Him to bring us to healing when we
place ourselves in His hands and let Him lead.”
Sawyer,
in her characteristically heartfelt and gentle style, deftly handles the complexity
of how past actions influence present circumstances. “Our past does affect our
present,” says Sawyer. “[But] God can make beauty out of the ashes of our past
when we fully give ourselves to Him.”
For
more on Bringing Maggie Home,
including the first chapter excerpt, visit www.waterbrookmultnomah.com.
Advance
Praise
“Bringing Maggie Home is beautiful, deep and engaging! Don’t miss out on this
powerful and emotive story.”
~ Cindy Woodsmall, New
York Times best-selling author
“In Bringing Maggie Home, Kim Vogel Sawyer has once again woven a story so rich and
unforgettable that it leaves her readers both satisfied and hungering for more.
Her storytelling ability invites her readers into each scene. We laugh and cry, squirm and ache with the characters
as if they were family members . . . even the absent ones.”
~ Cynthia Ruchti, author of more than 20 books,
including A Fragile Hope and As
My Parents Age
About the
Author
Kim
Vogel Sawyer is a highly acclaimed,
best-selling author with more than one million books in print, in several
different languages. Her titles have earned numerous accolades, including the
ACFW Carol Award, the Inspirational Readers Choice Award and the Gayle Wilson
Award of Excellence.
Sawyer told her kindergarten teacher someday
people would check out her books in libraries. That little girl’s dream came
true in 2006 with the release of Waiting
for Summer’s Return. Since then, Sawyer has watched God expand her dream
beyond her childhood imaginings.
Sawyer lives in central
Kansas with her retired military husband, Don, where she continues to write
gentle stories of hope and redemption. She enjoys spending time with her three
daughters and grandchildren.
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