num_pages: 384
description: Library Journal Starred ReviewRomantic Times 4 1/2 starsTop Pick2013 Southern Indie Booksellers Alliance Okra PickSouthern Lit Review Read of the MonthFrom the best-selling author of Crossing Oceans comes a heartrending yet uplifting story of friendship and redemption. On the cusp of adulthood eighteen-year-old Penny Carson is swept off her feet by a handsome farmhand with a confident swagger. Though Trent Taylor seems like Prince Charming and offers an escape from her one-stop-sign town Pennys happily-ever-after lasts no longer than their breakneck courtship. Before the ink even dries on their marriage certificate he hits her for the first time. It isnt the last yet the bruises that cant be seen are the most painful of all.When Trent is injured in a welding accident and his paycheck stops he has no choice but to finally allow Penny to take a job cleaning houses. Here she meets two women from very different worlds who will teach her to live and laugh again and lend her their backbones just long enough for her to find her own.Gina Holmes  stunning literary talent glistens like crystal in Wings of Glass. With subtle brilliance she takes us into the very heart of what makes us hungry to love and be loved. Simply stellar! Susan Meissner Author of A Sound Among the Trees
language: English
title: Wings of Glass
publisher: Tyndale House