num_pages: 350
description: 2020 Christy Award Winner and HOLT Medallion FinalistIt was just a house. Just a weathered old house in a hidden grove shuttered and still . . .  Last year after traumatic circumstances forced her from her job as a nanny Mara Bristol finally found a place to belong-the winsome Everwood Bed &amp; Breakfast at the edge of Maple Valley Iowa. For months she's helped its owner Lenora maintain the ramshackle property despite their shortage of guests. But when Lenora fails to return from a month-long trip and the bank threatens foreclosure Mara worries she's once again alone . . . abandoned . . . about to lose the only true home she's ever known.Detective Marshall Hawkins is no closer to whole today than he was two years ago . . . the day his daughter died. Between his divorce debilitating migraines and a dependence on medication his life is falling apart. And when a reckless decision on the job propels him into administrative leave he has no other plan but to get in his truck and drive. A one-night stay at the Everwood was supposed to be just that. But there's something about the old house-or maybe its intriguing caretaker-that pulls him in.Together Mara and Marshall set out to save the Everwood. But its secrets run deeper than they could've imagined. As they renovate the house and search for its missing owner they'll each confront the pain that brought them to the Everwood in the first place . . . and just maybe discover a faith and love to help them carry on.
language: English
title: Now and Then and Always
publisher: Larkspur Press