Endless Chain
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Publisher Description
From the author of Wedding Ring
It's not easy to hope for the future when you're running from the past
Sam Kinkade is finally feeling at home as the minister in rural Toms Brook, in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. But now, his plans to welcome the Hispanic community to the church are being met with resistance. Fortunately, when the local community centre is threatened, a stranger named Elisa Martinez walks through his door and Sam realises he has found a woman capable of building bridges.
Elisa is an enigma. Although she slowly becomes involved in the community centre, Sam is certain from her guarded manner that she is hiding something. Yet despite their growing friendship Elisa won't discuss her past. Sam is intrigued with this Latina stranger, a woman who, despite their different backgrounds, makes him only too aware of the intimacy missing in his life.
Elisa isn't looking to make friends, let alone put down roots. She has come to hide. But despite her fears of discovery she is drawn to the friendship offered by the women in the local quilting circle. And even though she fears the consequences, she finds herself powerfully drawn to Sam.
As she waits for a reunion that may set her free, Elisa is captivated by a generations–old love story. Will she and Sam repeat the past, or can they find the love and the freedom they seek at last?
With the warmth and comfort of a hand–made quilt, Endless Chain will envelop readers into the richness of life in the Shenandoah Valley.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The backwater town of Toms Brook, Va., again forms the bucolic setting for the second installment in Richards's Shenandoah Album series (Wedding Ring), a densely plotted romance centering on Elisa Martinez, a refugee from Guatemala, and Sam Kinkade, minister of the Shenandoah Community Church. Hiding a dark past, Elisa arrives in Toms Brook seeking the job of church sexton as the community deals with a recent influx of Hispanic immigrants. Not all members of the Shenandoah Community Church welcome the newcomers, but Sam Kinkade spearheads a church-run effort to create "La Casa Amarilla," an educational program for Hispanic children housed in a pre Civil War house with an incredible history. From the get-go, sparks fly between Elisa and Sam, who is engaged to an Atlanta society belle. Richards weaves numerous subplots around Elisa and Sam's growing love: her escape from political strife in Guatemala, the challenges facing both working class and educated immigrants like Elisa, plus the history of a runaway slave who once hid in La Casa Amarilla's historic building and whose tale parallels Elisa's. Throughout this heartfelt if often implausible novel, the women of the church's quilting bee support Sam's religious calling to make a difference, Elisa's gradual revelation of her past and the couple's blossoming relationship.
