title: Grace Falling Like Rain
author: Van Cleve, Donna C.
description: Grace Falling Like Rain pieces together dreams, blue eyes, love, soap, and forgiveness in the life of Allie Blake. The year is 1875, and she's on her way home to south Texas. For the past year she has been living with an aunt and uncle in northeast Texas, sent there as a deterrent to a forbidden relationship with a Mexican man-- a serious break in traditional and cultural rules. On the way she finds love and acceptance from a surprising source, but the relationship and her life are almost lost when Allie unknowingly finds herself a victim of a brother's jealousy and anger. Allie had grown up hearing stories about a little boy and his mother who were taken by the Apaches, and after six long years were found and rescued. Little did she know that history would repeat itself eighteen years later, and she would be right in the middle of it.