A Wife for Nathan

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Mary Blakey Gibbs has been a teacher for twenty-eight years (secondary and elementary). She feels that she has been blessed and rewarded from her experience working with children. She has a collection of pictures, drawings, trinkets, and other treasures received from students over the years. Her passion is reading and she has tried to instill that passion in her students. Gibbs lives in Montgomery, Alabama with her husband, John, whom she met at church. He is her best friend and her own personal hero. They have been married almost twenty-one years....

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CeCe Carter is living what seems to be a perfect life in Maryville, Georgia, when tragedy strikes, causing her to become the mother figure for her three teenage siblings. Overwhelmed, CeCe reflects on the prayer her grandmother taught her that Jesus will never give her more than she can bear and attempts to bravely move forward. As she tries to reconcile her anger, fears, and anxiety, CeCe cannot help but feel that life is unfair. Soon CeCe settles into somewhat of a normal routine that eventually includes marriage to her boyfriend, Lee. With help from her new husband and her faith, CeCe manages to overcome a variety of challenges that include an emotionally needy neighbor and rebellious teenagers. As the teens mature into adulthood, CeCe's trials and tribulations continue as she tries to guide her younger siblings into making good choices. Now only time will tell if her reliance on the Lord and her motherly instincts have put her siblings on the right path to achieving everything her parents would have ever wanted for them. In this touching novella, a woman suddenly thrust into the responsibility of motherhood after a family tragedy must find the strength and faith to guide her three siblings into adulthood.