Blurb

St. Louis
1890
Growing up, Lydia lived with her parents on a tree-shaded street in a quiet neighborhood. Their Queen Anne-style house provided space for missionaries on leave. Life was idyllic except when a boy, Adam, and his missionary parents stayed at their house. Every bug or worm she showed him scared him to the point of running to the house crying. Lydia had wondered what was wrong with him.
Years later, when Lydia’s beloved father passed away, and then her mother fell ill for a year, it seemed as if God no longer cared about them. Lydia signed up for teacher’s college, then came home to find her mother cleaning the guest room because the boy who’d come with his parents ten years ago needed a place to recover from malaria. Now she’d have to put off college to care for him.
Adam finds himself delivered to the home his parents had arranged for him to recover. To his horror, all he can see is the skinny girl with red braids who tormented him when the family stayed here years ago.
Will Lydia open her heart to God’s healing? Can Adam find it in his heart to forgive Lydia? Will both seek God’s plan for their lives?