I do like to dabble in the odd romance but nothing too mushy. This was perfect for my taste as this centres on a married couple.
Family is important but not as important as a husband and wife.

I hadn’t realised (again...I keep doing this) that this was book 3 in the series but for me, I didn’t notice that when enjoying it so I am guessing you can jump straight into this one if you choose.
If you are like me and like to follow a series from the start, them I’d recommend that for you.

It was a lovely cleanser from my usual genre of thrillers.

I’m definitely following this author.

One woman's fight to save her marriage, to find herself and to let herself be loved.

Faith Marin is on the right track career-wise - she is a good TV reporter with the good instinct and the ability to connect with her viewers well. And she is willing to work her fingers to the bone, so to say, to do her job well - and to hide her inner shame, the unhealed shame of her hard childhood.
But her marriage is on different track. She loves Geary and he seems to love her, too - but they just want the different things in life. And his overbearing family is too much!
But then the tragedy strikes and Faith finds herself in the hospital - wounded, with the months of therapy before her and her dreams crushed. How can she live, when she is so much broken, her past wounds totaled with the new ones? Who can love her so, so unlovable?

I officially love Kellie Coates Gilbert's works.
Such deep humanity, such insight into the souls of women! And working women, at that. I love how she does not judge - instead of that she tries to understand. What might seem to the "common" person (a Christian one, even) as selfish decision (like Faith's run after her career goals), she tries to see through the eyes of fellow human person. And I love that she does not portrait the Christians like the ultimate golden people (we are not) - the Marins here can be overbearing, obnoxious and as selfish sometimes as can be. Their saving grace is that they try to love on their fellow people - and I am encouraged by this book to try to do the same.

While I would love to have more space of the novel being dedicated to Faith's healing on all of the fronts (it seems quite fast to me), I love the portray of her marriage. How wise to understand the different backgrounds of the ones involved! Here, I was definitely on Faith's side, her husband should be far less narrow-minded and mama's boy - but he for sure has many redeeming qualities!

And I love how the authoress has shed some light of the most crippling emotion of all - the shame.

Recommended read.

Requested per cover and synopsis, didn't finish. Was unable to connect with the story. Thanks for the opportunity to review it.

This is a story of a couple, Faith and Geary who has a struggling marriage. Faith is attempting to combine career and marriage and finding it to be stressful, to say the least. There was too little said about how Faith came to Christ. I felt leaving this out left out a very important part of the story.
I was given an ecopy of this to read by the publisher, Revell and Netgalley in exchange for my honest review.