Shades of Morning - Review

I recently received Shades of Morning by Marlo Schalesky for review, and I LOVED it! It is one of those books that make you want to ignore the dirty house, fighting kids, and dinner that needs to be made just to keep reading! (Of course I didn't ignore my kids or not make dinner, but maybe the house didn't get as clean the last few days!) I thought Marlo Schalesky did an excellent job of writing this book. I love Christian romances and this is a good one. The main character Marnie must face the past that she ran away from years ago when her sister dies and leaves Marnie as the guardian of her son. Emmit, who has Down syndrome, helps her face her sorrows and regrets and begin to heal. But the story also has some suspense and a surprise ending, which make you want to read the whole book in one sitting!

Summary:
Marnie doesn’t know much about miracles. Mistakes maybe. Accidents, too. And monstrous mess-ups. She knows a lot about those. But miracles? Those are for other people. But, Marnie is about to discover that God can turn a past full of regrets into a beautiful future.

Marnie Wittier has life just where she wants it. Quiet. Peaceful. No drama. A long way away from her past. In the privacy of her home, she fills a box with slips of paper, scribbled with her regrets, sins, and sorrows. But that’s nobody else’s business. Her bookstore/coffee shop patrons, her employees, her friends from church—they all think she’s the very model of compassion and kindness.

Then Marnie’s past creeps into her present when her estranged sister dies and makes Marnie guardian of her fifteen-year-old son—a boy Marnie never knew existed. And when Emmit arrives, she discovers he has Down syndrome—and that she’s woefully unprepared to care for him. What’s worse, she has to deal with Taylor Cole, her sister’s attorney, a man Marnie once loved—and abandoned. As Emmit (and Taylor) work their way into her heart, Marnie begins to heal. But when pieces of her dismal past surface again, she must at last face the scripts of paper in her box, all the regrets and sorrows. Can she do it? Or will she run again?

Author Bio:
Marlo Schalesky is the author of several books, including Beyond the Night and Empty Womb, Aching Heart. A graduate of Stanford University, Marlo also has a masters of theology with an emphasis in biblical studies from Fuller Theological Seminary. Married over twenty years, she lives with her husband, Bryan, and their five children in California.

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This book was provided for review by Waterbrook Multnomah.