num_pages: 258
description: Number one New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury delivers an instant classic with this heartwarming Christmas story about a hundred-year flood lost love and the beauty of enduring friendships. Molly Allen lives alone in Portland but she left her heart back in Tennessee with a man she walked away from five years ago. They had a rare sort of love she hasnt found since.Ryan Kelly lives in Nashville after a broken engagement and several years on the road touring with a country music duo. He can still hear Mollys voice encouraging him to follow his dreams; Molly whose memory stays with him. At least he can visit The Bridgethe oldest bookstore in historic downtown Franklinand remember the hours he and Molly once spent there.For thirty years Charlie and Donna Barton have run The Bridge providing the people of middle Tennessee with coffee conversation and shelves of good bookseven through dismal book sales and the rise of digital books. Then in May the hundred-year flood swept through Franklin and destroyed nearly every book in the store.Now the bank is pulling the lease on The Bridge. Despondent and without answers Charlie considers the unthinkable. Then tragedy strikes and suddenly everything changes. In the face of desperate brokenness and lost opportunities could the miracle of a second chance actually unfold?The Bridge is a love story set against the struggle of the American bookstore a love story you will never forget.
language: English
title: The Bridge
publisher: Howard Books