Restoration and Romance by Shari Macdonald

Author:Shari Macdonald [Hicks, Barbara Jean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-56518-1
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2011-07-20T00:00:00+00:00

BESIDE THE STILL WATERS

Barbara Curtis

Thanks be to God—and to all those who helped with this story.

“O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.”

PSALM 34:3

“He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul.”

PSALM 23:2–3

CHAPTER ONE

K. C. McKenzie walked to the picture window of her ninth floor furnished apartment. Her few possessions were packed, ready. She just had one final farewell to say. Pressing her hand against the cold glass, she looked out beyond Lake Shore Drive to Lake Michigan.

“Good-bye,” she whispered to the waves pounding below. She’d once loved these waters that had been part of her life, all twenty-seven years of it, here in Chicago. The waves were an old-time companion, sometimes nipping at her feet as she’d run along the beach, other times drenching her clothes in their awesome show of power. But no longer could she laugh at or delight in the waters below. Especially on a day like today, when the waves displayed their pounding, brutal ability to heave, to crush … to snatch. Just as they had the day they left her a widow.

She shuddered and stepped back from the window, her gaze going to her leather briefcase, the last item to be placed in the BMW. Inside was her lifeline, a rose-scented letter containing the one thing she needed to start a new life. Hope.

Brian’s Great-aunt Lidia probably had no idea what the oft-read letter in an arthritic scrawl meant to her. But a few memorized snatches clung to K. C.’s heart.

Dear Kathryn,

I’m sure you’ve found that two years do not erase your grieving.… I thought you’d want to know

Mother’s old farm is up for sale.… Such fond memories I have of you and Brian playing there as children.…

From my front door I can see that the old house could use a touch of repair. Perhaps now is the time for it to belong to the McKenzie family once again.

Should this be the Lord’s leading for you, please stop and see me when you get here.…

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