Review: Unpacking the Baggage
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 30, 2013
Jennifer Evans has come to Vermont because her brother is getting married. Sure, she's a month or two early. Caught in a house fire and badly burned, Jennifer has lost her job and undergone surgeries as she recovered. After Wes's wedding will be soon enough to recreate her life. . .if she can.Bill Morgan is Wes's roommate and boss at Wild River Resort Nature Center. Somehow Jennifer hadn't realized her brother didn't have his own place. She's sure to be in the way, but both Bill and Wes invite her to stay.Jen has a lot of baggage (only a duffel bag physically, but much more mentally) in her lack of belief that God cares about her. Her fiancé ditched her while she lay in the hospital, but God had done so long before. How can her brother still believe? And now Bill proclaims a relationship with God is vital to him.As Jennifer gets reacquainted with her brother and gets to know his fiancée and that cute roommate, she's challenged also to find God again.This story is about more than a growing attraction between a man and a woman, but the romance is also strong and well done. Carrie Turansky is an author to watch.