Swimming in the Deep End
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- $13.99
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
A moving novel entwining the many faces of motherly love
Jillian Connors has the perfect daughter: loving and smart, she's an Olympic hopeful with a bright future. But when Gabby 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 family.
Gabby 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 girl. At least she has the baby's father, Travis. Nothing can tear them apart, right?
Margaret Owens had determined dreams for her son. She's furious that Gabby'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 Gabby.
Stacey Meyers 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 peace? Is there any hope of a family in their future?
And in the midst of all this . . . an unborn baby. Whose arms will hold him in the end?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Nelson (If We Make It Home) intertwines the lives of four women struggling to deal with motherhood and faith in this moving story. Church secretary Jillian Connors sees her halcyon life thrown into uncertainty when her daughter becomes pregnant, and a hidden abortion from her past threatens to destroy the image of motherhood she's worked to so hard to build. Izzy Connors wishes she never became pregnant but must put her hopes of becoming an Olympic swimmer on hold after she decides to keep the baby with her boyfriend, Travis Owens. Margaret Owens has had a tough time raising four boys by herself, but is particularly concerned when Travis, a baseball star, gets his girlfriend pregnant. When tragedy strikes the Connors and Owens families, Izzy ends up at A Child's Home, a home for women with unplanned pregnancies. Stacey Meyers and her husband, Keith, are still grieving the loss of their first child after she starts volunteering at A Child's Home and meets Izzy. As the women connect at the home, they learn to deal with the pain and grief from their pasts and look forward to what God has in store for their futures. This emotional, affecting story deals with realistic aspects of pregnancy and will make a great selection for book clubs or as a conversation starter for mothers and daughters.
