3 Books by Penelope J. Stokes
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Overview: Penelope Stokes holds a Ph.D. in Renaissance Literature. In 1985, after twelve years as an Associate Professor of writing and literature, she left the university classroom to pursue a career in freelance writing. She has published eleven novels, including the critically acclaimed The Blue Bottle Club and several works of nonfiction. She resides in Danbury, Connecticut.
Genre: Christian Fiction
Circle of Grace
When tragedy occurs, four friends come together in a bittersweet reunion and are forced to confront the falsehoods and also embrace the truth in their lives.
On college graduation day, Grace and her friends—Liz, Tess, and Lovey—agreed to keep a journal that would make the rounds. They vowed to always be truthful.
For three decades, the journal has been circulating, carrying stories of Liz’s missions against social injustices, Tess’s successful career and home life, and Lovey’s fairy-tale marriage to a former pro football player-turned-executive.
As for Grace, she never intends to deceive her seemingly content friends. She can’t bear to admit how her life has spiraled downward and the dismal realities she faces everyday. So at first, she simply embellishes the truth, omitting a few details from her entries. But over the years, one exaggeration leads to another until most of the life she has written is fiction.
Now Grace is extremely ill. Alone and desolate with nothing to lose, she reaches out to her friends. Reunited, they help her face the battle of her life while embarking on the most important struggle of their own lives—the fight for honesty and friendship.
The Amethyst Heart
When she discovers her son has designs to sell her home out from under her, Miss Amethyst-ninety-three years old and as sharp as ever-isn’t about to let her legacy go. She pins her hopes on her granddaughter, Little Am, a good-natured child who has mutated in her teenage years into something else altogether. Whatever it takes, Little Am will know that the Noble family heritage is worth fighting for.
The Wishing Jar
Abby Quinn McDougall is a Southern lady whose once picturesque small-town life seems to be shrinking. Widowed at fifty and burdened by the care of an ailing mother and a cantankerous teenaged daughter, Abby wishes her life were simpler and her responsibilities fewer. Abby’s daughter, Neal Grace, devastated by the loss of her doting father and the illness of her beloved grandmother, wishes for change, for the chance to break free from other people’s expectations. And Abby’s mother Edith wishes only to be liberated from life itself.
But wishes often backfire. As their wishes begin to come true, the Quinn women start to wonder: Could it be that their old life wasn’t so bad after all? Is it possible that the answer to their deepest longings has been right in front of them, all along?
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