Shades of Violet

<p><strong>Bookfest 2022's #1 Christian Contemporary Fiction winner Hallie Lee brings us a heartwarming page-turner rich with twists humor and her unique brand of edgy inspirational drama.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><em>Small-town life at its heart-tugging best! Curl up and let this one wrap around you like a warm blanket. A must read!</em></p><p><em>~Jennifer Jakes</em></p><p><br></p><p><em>Two years have passed since violence and arson brought Shady Gully and its citizens to the brink of destruction but now is the time for healing and new beginnings. And a wedding is just the thing to bring everyone together...</em></p><p><em>Or is it?</em></p><p>As <strong>PETEY</strong> and <strong>VIOLET</strong> return to Shady Gully for the Big Event they bring a myriad of secrets. Violet a prodigy destined for medical accolades prepares to <strong>shock her family with her game-changing plans</strong> while Petey drags into town bruised and humiliated after a humbling step toward his own veiled dream.</p><p>While Shady Gully has prospered under <strong>MAYOR LUKE</strong> Petey's older brother the town continues to quarrel over the churches destroyed by the fires. Sadly the <strong>ceaseless debate</strong> leaves Shady Gully's fabled four-way-stop vacant allowing an opening as a long-haired oddball armed with a ragtag set of grills shows up and sets up camp.</p><p>Despite the dispute <strong>DESI</strong> and <strong>ROBIN</strong> power-through the wedding planning while <strong>MEADOW the mother of the bride</strong> struggles with resentment as the festivities dredge up her own painful history. To complicate matters a <strong>suspicious character</strong> from Shady Gully's past turns up rousing bad memories and adding to the fracas.</p><p><em>Surely Shady Gully needs a miracle to restore decorum and heal old wounds?</em></p><p>Perhaps one will come in the form of <strong>TIMOTHY</strong> the beloved pastor from Paint Me Fearless (book 1 in the <em>Shady Gully Series</em>) as his arrival triggers a staggering truth and serves up a colorful palette of justice.</p><p><br></p><p><strong><em>An unraveling a crackpot with a spatula and a long-awaited reckoning-and romance-erupt at Shady Gully's grandest event yet!</em></strong></p>