Healing Faith
Pam Gossiaux
June 20, 2020
Tri-Cat Publishing
$4.99 Ebook
$14.95 Print
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About the Book
A heartwarming story about trusting in your heart, even when it has been broken. By international bestselling author Pamela Gossiaux!
Faith is believing in something when the outcome seems impossible…
Rachel Walker’s husband left her for another woman, her parents are
disappointed in her, and she is struggling with her job as a child
psychologist. The only place she feels valued is at Three Hearts Ranch,
the equine-assisted therapy center where she volunteers. It’s her safe
space from the world.
Until Christopher Adler walks through the barn door.
Christopher Adler is the only survivor of the attack that took the lives
of the other men in his Humvee in Afghanistan. Several years later,
he has left a string of bad relationships and buried himself in a bottle
until one cold night when he met God. Now, trying to turn his life around,
he seeks help for his PTSD at Three Hearts Ranch. But he wasn’t counting
on Rachel Walker – the girl he had hurt in high school– to be assigned as
his therapist.
Rachel detests Chris, and working together isn’t an option. But then Faith, an abused palomino mare, is brought to the farm. As they try to save her, old feelings resurface, and they start to question whether wounds can be healed and hearts restored.
My Review
I love it when a story makes me cry. I’m not even a pet person. Gossiaux’s latest western Michigan-based horse therapy tale is much more than light romance. She touches on the very real trauma of adult-onset PTSD, as well as unfortunate consequences of teen angst and parental dysfunction. We all have choices, but sometimes I wonder what God is doing when He gives us enough room to…you know.
Rachel Walker is a psychologist whose specialty is working with children by day in a clinical setting, and volunteering on the side at an equine therapy center. The horse farm, her safe haven, grounds her when life overwhelms even the toughest human. Rachel’s friend/boss Gretchen at the clinic has given Rachel a lot of latitude to work out the lifelong anger that’s pretty much ruled every choice she’s made. Stemming from a devastating let-down in high school, Rachel has blamed every bad development on the one person who left her out to dry. But when that person, Chris Adler, shows up again a dozen years later and needing her help professionally, she faces more impossible choices. Now, Rachel’s boss/friend Kim, owner of the horse farm about to go under from potential financial ruin, isn’t about to let Rachel wiggle out of a responsibility to use her talent to help others. Especially when she’s Chris’s only hope of regaining a functional life.
When these lost and hurting souls team up to bring a special rescue horse named Faith back to face the world, they learn together that even if they can’t find a way to fix everything and everyone, a greater Presence will always have their backs.
Told in alternating viewpoints from Rachel and Chris, this story encompasses great love and the value of forgiveness no matter how hard it is to let go of anger, assumptions, and particularly the expectations we place on those we love. Beautiful story, well told, and highly recommended for those who enjoy chewy redemptive books.
About the Author
Pamela Gossiaux is the international bestselling author of the Russo Romantic Mystery series, the romantic comedy Good Enough, the YA novel Ordinary Girl, and the inspirational books, Why Is There a Lemon in My Fruit Salad? How to Stay Sweet When Life Turns Sour, and A Kid at Heart. She is also a keynote speaker, freelance writer, and teaches writing workshops. She lives and writes in Michigan near a wonderful university town with her husband, two sons, and three cats. Visit her website at PamelaGossiaux
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