title: East of the Shadows
author: Hutchens, Paul
description: The first full-length novel in sixteen years by the creator of the fabulous
  Sugar Creek Gang
   series!
  Joe Cardinal, 27-year-old bachelor and columnist  during the darkening pre-World War II days, finds two women deeply involved in his  life—the girl he loves and his secretary, who have both fallen in love with  him.
  But ambitions and romance are suspended when Cardinal’s draft deferment  is dropped, and he sets off to war, to return a different man.
  East of  the Shadows
   is a story of life—a story of the struggle to overcome the  obstacles, to pass through the shadow of the valleys in our lives, and to come back  alive, having conquered.
  It’s a story of true love that trusts and  forgives, that has a small cemetery in which to bury all the faults of our friends.  And it’s a story of faith, of a man’s struggle to know his Creator,  and the difficult road he has to trod before he can.
  East of the Shadows
    is a book that will become a part of you as you live it through Joe Cardinal!