num_pages: 342
description: After a twenty-year absence Rikki Crockett has come home. When she left she was young hurt and angrybetrayed by her parents and abandoned by her best friend Dante Rushton. She vowed never to return but when life takes a sudden and unexpected turn home may be the only place to find a future for her two children.Dante Rushton also endured a difficult childhood. Yet he found a safe haven in his LDS ward whose members surrounded him with love and helped him grow to be a man of faith. Now a happily married father of four he serves as bishop to the people who once shaped his future.The old-timers in the war are thrilled to welcome Rikki home but Dante's wife Becca is torn between wanting to befriend Rikki and wishing to keep her and her rebellious teenage daughter as far away from the Rushton family as possible. Why has Rikki returned after so many years and what does she want from Becca and Dante?Before I Say Goodbye is the compelling story of two families helping each other face an uncertain future and of a woman who makes peace with her past to discover the last and greatest love of all.
language: English
title: Before I Say Good-Bye
publisher: Deseret Book Company