"Leota's Garden" by Francine Rivers

If you have ever wished a family could mend, this is a story for you.

Leota Reinhardt is eighty-four and living alone. Her garden was once a place of beauty and hope, a refuge from the wounds of a devastating war. Now it is overgrown and in ruins, much like her relationships with her adult children, and every effort she makes to reconcile with them has come to nothing.

Then change arrives from two directions. A college student who thinks he has all the answers shows up, and so does a granddaughter Leota never hoped to know. As these lives meet, long-kept family secrets start to come out. The question is whether the damage they caused can be repaired before Leota runs out of time.

Rivers is best known for “Redeeming Love,” and this novel has the same warmth and honesty about faith, forgiveness, and second chances. It is the kind of story that stays with you and is easy to share with a friend or a book club.

This paperback is in good condition.