Bridge to Haven
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4.6 • 512 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
A New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller!
In this riveting saga of temptation, grace, and unconditional love, the New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love and The Masterpiece delivers big-canvas storytelling at its very best.
To those who matter in 1950s Hollywood, Lena Scott is the hottest rising star to hit the silver screen since Marilyn Monroe. Few know her real name is Abra. Even fewer know the price she’s paid to finally feel like she’s somebody.
To Pastor Ezekiel Freeman, Abra will always be the little girl who stole his heart the night he found her, a wailing newborn abandoned under a bridge on the outskirts of Haven. Zeke and his son, Joshua―Abra’s closest friend―watch her grow into an exotic beauty. But Zeke knows the circumstances surrounding her birth have etched scars deep in her heart, scars that leave her vulnerable to a fast-talking charmer who lures her to Tinseltown.
Hollywood feels like a million miles from Haven, and naive Abra quickly learns what’s expected of an ambitious girl with stars in her eyes. But fame comes at a devastating price. She has burned every bridge to get exactly what she thought she wanted. Now all she wants is a way back home.
This riveting and emotional tale is perfect for fans of:
• Historical fiction and Christian romance
• Glamorous, vintage Hollywood settings
• Faith-filled stories about broken characters on the road to redemption
“One of the edgiest Christian romances I have had the pleasure of reading in a long while. Francine Rivers has woven a deeply moving story with an adept hand that knows just how to layer humanity, in all its beautiful and ugly truth, into almost every individual who steps onto the page.”
―USA Today’s Happy Ever After Blog
“This is another compelling and moving story by one of the genre’s most honored and talented writers.”
―Library Journal, starred review
“Rivers returns with a page-turning recasting of the story of the prodigal son, here a prodigal daughter. . . . This story arc will be particularly resonant for Christian readers, but Rivers has the writing ability to reel in others who enjoy a well-told tale of redemption.”
―Publishers Weekly
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Rivers (Redeeming Love) returns with a page-turning recasting of the story of the prodigal son, here a prodigal daughter. In 1936, Abra Matthews is found as a newborn under a bridge in the small California town of Haven by Pastor Ezekiel Freeman. She's taken in, but never feels as if she quite belongs, so she is susceptible to a beguiling young man who years later lures 17-year-old Abra to Hollywood. There, she becomes starlet Lena Scott, made over by a Pygmalion-like agent who wants everything from her, even while Abra/Lena comes to understand the cost of what she thought she wanted. Rivers nicely evokes 1950s Hollywood, with its gossip columnists, high-wattage movie stars, and ladder-climbing aspirants; Elvis Presley and Lana Turner put in cameos. This story arc will be particularly resonant for Christian readers, but Rivers has the writing ability to reel in others who enjoy a well-told tale of redemption.
Customer Reviews
Heartwarming
Very enjoyable book. Great story of Redemption.
Don’t get me started
I LOVED THIS BOOK SO MUCH. The first two chapters were slow for me but after that it really took off. I love the details and you really get to see the progression of the characters. Ms. Rivers really makes you feel towards the characters. This book really did add to my faith also. I could literally read this book again even tho I just finished it. Ugh. 10/10 would recommend.
Bridge to Haven
Absolutely a delight to read this well written story about well developed Characters…their lives, doubts, fears, lives and the unchanging all-encompassing love and mercy of God. I’ll remember how this book touched my heart for a long, long time. Life changing, memorable books are far and few between anymore. Thank you for trusting God to use you to write a moving, beautiful but gritty story of real people in real situations and the God who never gives up!