This is a story about choices. Some easy, others most
difficult to make and still others far reaching in their
effects on our lives and the lives of others. It is also a
story about dealing with life's surprises and tragedies.
Dealing with the curves life throws at you and your ability
to bounce back from adversity. Choice one: Kendra Taylor is
really sick and in desperate need of the prescription
waiting at the pharmacy. Her husband Isaac is, as usual,
wrapped up at work and can't get her meds for her. So she
braves the nasty weather and with her newly purchased drugs
heads back to her car silently praying she has the strength
to make it safely home. But fate steps in, in the form of an
armed car jacker and his shot leaves Kendra fighting for her
life.
Kendra's choice and the ensuing events will forever alter
her life as well as her husband Isaac's but as we learn
changes are often good for us. And change is just what
Kendra and Isaac's life and marriage sorely need. We are
drawn into the story of Isaac's family and discover along
with Kendra some wonderful and some sad facts that help us
understand the man Isaac has become. His life has been
shaped by choices made by his grandmother Leah, grandfather
Jesse, mother Rachel as well as his adopted parents. But the
most important choice left is whether Isaac will join Kendra
on her journey to learn all she can about his history and
hopefully save their fragile marriage.
You're probably wondering what this has to do with a quilt
as suggested by the title "Lover's Knot." Well, the quilt is
one of the key participants in this adventure. Through the
quilt they discover the many secrets that will unlock the
past and pave the way toward Isaac's awakening of his true
self. The quilt takes us on an adventure where we meet the
inhabitants of Lock Hollow before all the land was taken by
the government to be preserved as a national park. The
stories of the inhabitants reveal the hardship caused by the
systematic claiming of lands long held by generations of
families who now were forced to resettle in other areas
leaving behind homes and friends and facing uncertain futures.
Emilie Richards has once again pieced together a gem of a
story that tugs at the heartstrings, piques your curiosity
and gives the reader a peek at a time, not so long ago,
where people's destinies were at times in the hands of
strangers -- seemingly choice-less or perhaps it just felt
like that. Kendra and Isaac's story is about making the
right choices even if they seem at odds with convention.
Reading LOVER'S KNOT would be a good -- no, a great choice.
After narrowly escaping death, newspaper journalist Kendra Taylor retreats to a cabin nestled in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley to heal and sort out her feelings about her troubled marriage. The land was bequeathed to her husband by a maternal grandmother he never knew, and the cabin has been abandoned for years. As she is welcomed into the rural community of Toms Brook, Kendra becomes curious about an heirloom lover's knot quilty that is another piece of Isaac's unexplored past. The unusual quilt clearly has a story to tell, and Kendra is convinced that helping her husband connect with his roots might help him reconnect with her, as well. At first Isaac's reluctant visits to the cabin only underscore the difficulties in their marriage, but as circumstances force them to piece together a new relationship, Isaac discovers that the history of a family he's never known might hold the key to his future. As a passionate story of strength, loss and desperation unfolds, the secrets of two quilts are revealed and the threads of an unraveling marriage are secured. In the rich, evocative prose that earned high praise for Wedding Ring,and Endless Chain, Emilie Richards crafts the third tale in the Shenandoah Album series, resonant with the power of love and family ties.
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