Not a Sparrow Falls
Romance novelist Nichols (Handyman) enters the Christian market  with this contemporary tale of love and suspense. Abandoning her  godly upbringing after the siblings she raised for years are  placed in foster care, Mary Bridget ("Bridie") Washburn flees  the hills of Virginia with a man who forces her into a life of  crime. She eventually reports him to the police and strikes out  on her own. Assuming a new identity, Bridie lives a quiet life  until she meets a teenaged girl begging God for help. Alasdair  MacPherson, the girl's father, is a widowed pastor struggling to  raise three children after his wife's suicide. When he hires  Bridie as a nanny for his troubled family, her faith is  rekindled, and she and Alasdair slowly fall in love. But their  happiness is threatened when the man Bridie sent to jail is  released and tracks her down seeking vengeance. Although the  drama created by the suicide of Alasdair's wife offsets the  stock characters and predictable plot, the characters' cool  acceptance of it and lack of moral condemnation of her or the  deed may trouble more conservative Christian readers. For larger  collections.Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.