After losing both her father and mother to illness, Norah King finds herself engaged to a man she hardly knows in order to save her family’s land. As her only option for her future, things are set quite clearly for Norah until she finds vultures circling a wounded creature on her land and discovers that the creature is, in fact, a severely wounded man. A rather large severely wounded man, penniless and lost, searching for direction toward a life he hopes will look very different from the one he had before he was beaten and left for dead. While tending to Quincy’s physical wounds, Norah finds that Quincy brings a comfort to her life even as she brings comfort to his. However, they both must move forward into whatever may come, and he is compelled to leave as soon as he has recovered enough to travel. Neither one aware of what has transpired in the other’s life, the two are brought together in desperation again years later. Will the bond they unintentionally shared before be strengthened by the events that took place in the interim? Or will their hardships and secrets be too much to overcome?
Rachel Fordham writes with great detail a compelling story of loss and of love in Where The Road Bends. Without a family, Norah’s great yearning is to grow one of her own. And yet, some wounds are hard to heal. By crafting a cast of cast-offs with great heart, Fordham explores themes of forgiveness, as well as redemption and hope. Where The Road Bends is romance and more as Quincy and Norah, Alice, Mrs. Dover, Nels, and others learn that who they were does not negate who they have become.
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Thank you to the author and publisher for allowing me a copy to read and review. All opinions expressed here are my own and are completely genuine.
