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A Simple Gift

A Simple Gift, September 2006
by Karyn Witmer

Dell
Featuring: Avery & Mike Montgomery; Fiona
432 pages
ISBN: 0553584251
EAN: 9780553584257
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"Beautifully written story of a family learning to forgive and striving to find happiness."

Fresh Fiction Review

A Simple Gift
Karyn Witmer

Reviewed by Jory Reedy
Posted August 14, 2006

Romance Contemporary

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.

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SUMMARY

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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