title: Long Journey Home
author: MacLaren, Sharlene
description: After divorcing her abusive husband, single mother Callie May is still nursing the scars of a
   painful past. The last thing she needs in her life is another man, so she’s less than thrilled
   when a handsome but brooding stranger moves into the apartment across the hall.
   Dan Mattson may be attractive, but his circumstances certainly aren’t: a former church
   pastor, he abandoned his flock in Michigan and fled to the Chicago suburbs after the death
   of his beloved wife and baby daughter in a tragic automobile accident. Embittered by his
   loss, Dan turns his back on God.
  
   Callie mistrusts men, and the angry Dan often gives her good reason to. Both are weighed
   down by the scars and disappointment in their pasts. When Callie’s ex–husband shows up to
   wreak more havoc in her life, Dan finds himself coming to her defense—and facing his own
   demons in the process. Will Dan and Callie be able to get past their baggage and give love
   another chance? Can they come to see life’s apparent tragedies as part of God’s perfect plan?
   Can the power of God change their hearts and mend their hurts?