“You were built for hard things.”
Two years after losing the love of his life to cancer, Connor Murphy is slowly emerging from the darkness of grief, but he wrestles with fears about how he and his twelve-year-old son Reid will manage to navigate Reid’s teenage years on their own. Connor’s single-minded prayer has become, please, no more changes, but when single mom Jade Beck arrives to take on the job Sadie Murphy had done before her death, it becomes clear God has stamped his prayer request denied.
Jade Beck’s prayers were answered when she received the offer of a job as Lakeshore Lodge’s marketing and customer relations manager. Or so she thought. After a messy divorce, she and her two children need a safe place to land and find the peace their lives have lacked, but once she meets her abrupt, brooding supervisor, Mr. Connor Murphy, her fresh start suddenly looks a bit…stale. She’s already endured fifteen years living with a condescending man, and she won’t be a doormat anymore.
As the challenges of single parenting continually push them together, Jade and Connor’s relationship gradually transforms from cold and awkward to respectful and mutually supportive…and eventually to something deeper and more tender. But navigating these changes forces them to deal with the hurts and disappointments of their pasts and confront the fears that hold them captive.
Surrendering their hopes and fears to God has never felt so daunting. Can they learn to see the goodness of God, even in their broken paths, and trust that morning by morning, God’s tender mercies are ever new?
Morning by Morning, book 8 in the Murphy Brothers Stories, is a complex, emotional story of hope after heartache, of deeply moving, tender romance after devastating loss, and God’s faithful love, even in life’s hardest place.
“I need an Adam and Eve on a raft, and cry over it.”
Dairy, Dairy, Quite Contrary by Amy Lillard
I’ve got this one pre-ordered. Hope it’s good!
i love Amy’s books!
And which 17 year old listens to a parent? Great first line!
right? Lol
Great first line.
right?!
Love this first line! Mine is kind of crazy but is a great lead-in to the story.
“Carter Douglas hated running out of makeup.“
The Songs That Could Have Been
By Amanda Wen
LOVE this book! Just finished it last night
My first line comes from Long Way Home by Lynn Austin. Just released.
Hudson Valley, New York. June, 1946
“I know it looks hopeless,” I told Jimmy Barnett’s father. “But we can’t give up until Jimmy is better. Until he’s home again.”
that’s a line that definitely hooks me!
Happy Friday!
I’m currently reading To Kiss a Wallflower. It’s an anthology of short stories. So far, I am loving it! I’ll share a line from the story I’m currently reading.
“Lottie left the woods with a new sense of power.”
I hope you have a great weekend!
What a great fist line!
I posted the first line from A Healer’s Promise by Misty M Beller: https://daniellegrandinetti.com/2022/06/24/a-healers-promise/
Happy Monday!