title: Second Chances
author: O'Steen, Kimberley
description: Carrie felt a new strength welling up within her. She had survived. She had gone on. And as bad as she had felt at times, as hard as life without Scott could still be, she had kept living. At first, she had just gone through the motions, like a robot, not allowing herself to feel. But now she sensed that she was entering a new place. A place where she would no longer be afraid to really live again; to feel and hope again. Carrie Oakes finds herself dealing with a pain and loss so great that it drives her back home to Petal, Mississippi, where the most unexpected of emotional adventures reunites her with old friends, an old love...and into the crosshairs of a serial killer with a voracious appetite for the weak and comely. Will Carrie end up in the arms of Matthew Porter, a love she had long forgotten? Is she ready to open her heart to a new chapter in the life that God has planned for her? Or will she fall victim to the chilling nightmare that awaits her in the sick recesses of Jake Wasinski's mind? A story of life and death, Second Chances presents a drama that is not far from reality and brings forward the answers to the common and oftentimes forgotten question of whether or not we should have a faith unwavering, even in the face of adversity.