Beyond the Storm
Beyond the Storm Quilts of Love #1 BY Carolyn ZaneISBN: 9781426745973
This book covers all before the storm, during the storm and after the storm.
Justin Girard was elected from his family to leave the east coast and head to the midwest to care for the familys aging grandparents. He had no wife or any commitments to keep him there so he wandered west.
Abigail Durham worked in the hair/nail salon and met Justin while at the bar with the bachelorette ladies and got a chance to dance with him.
The town is to have a fair and a quilt showing where people gather early Sat. morning and quilt til the fair closes on Sun and they auction the quilt for charity.
This book follows many of the townsfolk in their everyday lives and religion brings them all together as one force.
The first thing that attracted me to want to read this book was because it had the word quilt in the title. To find out it's taking place in the midwest and they have fairs just makes this more of a read than I expected.
One of the events at the fair will be speed quilting from Sat. morning til Sun night and then the quilts get auctioned off, proceeds to go to charities. This sounds like such fun to just watch.
Now back to the storyline: Besides the beginning of a romance there are radio announcements about storms approaching but as months have gone by nothing ever comes of them.
Being that Rawston is a small community there is a lot of gossiping going on and everybody talks at the hair salon.
Things are building up and it's also the high school prom night.
Ah learned what a prayer pocket is. This book brings the whole community together with talk of church and charity events.
Book follows many in town but they all tend to run into one another on a weekly basis. A young woman with her baby living in a mobile home and her husband own/works at The Pump, a body builder.
Another owns/works at the lumber yard and other offices in there house others businesses. Everybody helps one another out.
Many passages of scriptures are recited here especially for the ones who need them, quite a devotional inspiration.
With the natural disaster we find everybody praying for others lifes. The descriptive details of the storm hitting made it seem to real, as if I'm there. So terrifying to go through it.
Now that the storm has passed the people really pull together.
The devastation reminds me too much of Katrina, talk of the markings spray painted on buildings and cars.
Some sadness but also joy in what they discover in the aftermath.
Dream seeds and hearing of the mining accident, happy and sad. Love the theme for the quilt: storm signal square and will do more research on how to make a square for my quilt.
The older women of the bunch explain why it seems like God did this to them all and how to look at it like it was meant to be.
Love how the men adapted to tying the quilt.