Avery and Mike Montgomery have led an uneventful life until one afternoon, standing in line at the local Food-4-Less, they notice their long-lost daughter working at one of the checkouts. After eye contact is made, they quietly walk away, reopening the old wounds that were made when she first ran off.
Fiona had decided to leave school and tour with her boyfriend's band, which to her parents meant she was simply throwing her life away. Now she is back in town but has made no attempt to contact them. Mike is adamant about Avery not having any contact with Fiona because of the way she treated them when she left. But Avery cannot turn her back on her only child.
This situation is definitely putting a strain on their marriage. Will Avery sneak around to see their daughter? Why doesn't Fiona want to see her parents? Will Mike and Avery be able to hold their marriage together?
Karyn Witmer has written a beautiful story about a family's struggle to forgive and move on in A SIMPLE GIFT.
Avery and Mike thought they had the perfect American
family until their daughter ran away. Now Fiona's back in
town...and nothing will ever be the same again.
Avery Montgomery's life changed forever in the checkout
line at the Food-4-Less when she discovered her long-lost
daughter, Fiona, working at the next register. Though
Avery yearns to reestablish contact, Fiona has secrets and
failures she can't bring herself to share with her mother -
and especially with her father.
Finally forced to choose between her marriage to Mike and
a future that includes their beloved only child, Avery
struggles to heal the rift that is tearing her family
apart. To do that, she must risk everything she cares
about, confront the sorrows of the past, and rediscover
the love that once bound her family together. Avery must
reach out to her husband and her daughter to forge a
bright new future - and she must do it through a simple gift
conceived in love.
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