Kim Vogel Sawyer latest book, When Mercy Rains, captured my attention immediately. So much so that I had a hard putting the book down. Needless to say I read it in record time!! We are introduced to Suzanne Zimmerman being sent away from her family and her Old Order Mennonite community by her mother because she is in the family way. Then we skip ahead twenty years when Suzanne receives a letter from her brother asking her to return home to help care for their invalid mother. But the family does not know about Alexa, Suzanne's daughter. Thus begins the inner conflicts of going home or staying put in Indiana. Alexa wants to meet her extended family unaware that they do not know of her existence. They go home to Kansas. This is where the story begins to unfold between mother and daughter, between old loves, and between family: bitterness, resentment, secrets. Can this family find healing? Or is it too late? The twist at the end only leads one to want to read the next part in this new trilogy.I received this book for free to review from WaterBook Press.
