Peculiar Treasures
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Publisher Description
Katie catches more than just the bouquet at Christy and Todd's wedding.
Just when her future as a college senior seems questionable, Katie catches a desirable position on campus, and everything begins to line up. That is, until she also catches the attention of Eli, a new student at Rancho Corona University.
Why does Eli keep looking at her that way? And what does all this mean to her "almost" boyfriend, Rick? He is the one who keeps saying their relationship should stay in the slow lane.
Katie agrees and optimistically rolls into the summer. Her days are filled with long hours at work, new friends and peers, a fun trip to Catalina Island and a beach day with her favorite friends from high school. Yet her heart feels unsettled.
Rick's job becomes complicated and so does their relationship. Katie's new position demands her full attention. When she finally hits a breaking point, Katie makes a late-night call to Christy in tears. Will Katie be honest with herself and her closest friend about her struggles? Will she remember the treasured words God impressed on her heart the day she found herself face to face with a wild fox?
Katie begins to see that her choices will define who she is and the woman she's becoming.
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Katie Weldon is just finishing her junior year at Bible College. As she juggles finals, maid-of-honor duties at her best friend's wedding, work and an almost-romance with her boss, she finds herself contemplating other big questions, such as whether to take a resident advisor position her senior year, and what to do about her undeclared major. Gunn has been writing about Katie and her friends for years, most notably in the popular Christy Miller series, and this is first in Gunn's Katie Weldon series. f Katie's dilemmas may seem like the stuff of unabashedly light fiction, but they aren't without gravity and intrigue. Gunn is adept at denuding light fiction of its usual tics\x97mediocre prose, clich d characters and predictable plots\x97and imbuing it with the hallmarks of literary fiction. The characters are multidimensional and ring true at nearly every turn. The dialogue that ensues is at once heartbreaking and utterly familiar to anyone who has ever been in Katie's shoes. Moreover, Katie's religious faith never feels sentimentalized or tacked on, but is integrated beautifully into the charming plot.
