Brenda Dillon is getting ready to "celebrate" the tenth
anniversary of her husband's death. As her daughter Macy
walks through the living room, she sees that some of the
pictures in the "shrine" have been removed. Nevertheless,
she and her brother, Max, have been summonsed here for this
remembrance dinner that has taken place every year. Macy
thinks it is time to move on. Macy sure wants to move on
with her life; she's really made a mess of it.
Chase Lewis returns after a five-year absence wanting to be
"daddy" to the little girl he left behind. He left Macy
behind also, and she has struggled to be both mommy and
daddy these past five years. Macy is not sure she wants to
let Chase back into her life, although she knows her
daughter, Emma, needs to know her daddy.
Brenda makes an announcement that the whole family is going
back to Sunset Beach, where they vacationed every summer
until the year after Darren Dillion died. She thinks it
will
be good to return and resolve some of the issues they have
all been facing over the past ten years. With work
arrangements made and bags packed, the four of them head
out
for the ocean. Macy keeps thinking about the guest book in
which she and another boy her age exchanged pictures each
year until they stopped returning to the 'Time in a Bottle'
rental house. Upon arrival, her first stop is the closet
and
the loose board in the floor. Sure enough, the guest book
is
right where she left it. And he left her one last picture.
Macy's mission on this vacation is to find the man who drew
the pictures for her as a boy. That night, while walking on
the beach, she prays for the first time in years, asking
God
to help her find him and to resolve so many questions she
has about how her life might have turned out. God answers
in
a mighty way! Three men come into Macy's life during her
vacation, and she is confused about which one was the
intended. Or maybe all three are God's way of showing Macy
just what He wants her to learn.
THE GUEST BOOK is an enchanting story about not staying
trapped in grief. It's about moving on from a memory,
embracing change in your life and allowing yourself to
heal.
Can Macy believe God will truly answer her prayer? Can she
resolve her past in order to move forward with her future?
Each of the three men who come into Macy's life seems to be
just the perfect one for her. This story will touch your
heart and have you rooting for each one. Marybeth Whalen
has
given us a truly inspirational story, with tender touches
of
romance that will have you turning the pages to find the
answers with Macy. You can't go wrong with THE GUEST BOOK!
When Macy Dillon was five years old her father encouraged her to draw a picture in the guestbook of a Carolina beach house. The next year, Macy returned to discover a drawing by an unidentified little boy on the facing page. Over the next eleven years the children continue to exchange drawings ... until tragedy ends visits to the beach house altogether. During her final trip to Sunset, Macy asks her anonymous friend to draw her one last picture and tells him where to hide the guest book in hopes that one day she will return to find it---and him. Twenty-five years after that first picture, Macy is back at Sunset Beach---this time toting a broken family and a hurting heart. One night, alone by the ocean, Macy asks God to help her find the boy she never forgot, the one whose beautiful pictures touched something deep inside of her. Will she ever find him? And if she does, will the guestbook unite them or merely be the relic of a lost childhood?
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