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Laura Hodges Poole
When financier Penny Ruskin returns to
Walhalla, South Carolina, she has one
purpose—to settle her grandmother's estate
and sell the Victorian house she grew up in.
Not an easy task with the downturned
economy. When she loses her job in the
state capital, what other choice does she
have but to stay in Walhalla until she finds
work? She can only hope it won't take long.
Walhalla is Tommy McAllister's life. Between
his family's feed-and-seed store and the
bank he's vice president of, he's stretched
thin trying to survive the recession. But
when a girl he hasn't seen since high school
breezes back into town, he's ready to push
himself even further to help her feel at
home—and convince her to stay. He reaches
out to Penny, but the last thing she wants is
to be trapped in a small town that holds
painful memories—one dark secret in
particular.
The town matchmaker and bank manager,
Miss Betty, a motherless teen Emma who
lives down the lane from Penny, and the
church ladies of Walhalla's First Baptist add
both heartwarming and challenging
moments to Penny's life.
With the past dogging Penny's steps,
dredging up painful memories she's tried to
outrun, relatives threaten the future she has
begun to hope for…But somewhere deep
inside her, a spark of hope remains. Tommy
isn't the only one praying for a miracle.
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