A Place With Promise Book

A Place with Promise is a magical, generation-spanning fable about everything we think we've lost?except, as the denizens of Camp Ruby learn, it's all still there, if we only know where to look for it. Bessie Overstreet knows quiet Isaac is the man she's always wanted from the moment his fishing boat drifts into view. She marries him?amidst town gossip that Bessie "isn't quite like everybody else"?and settles into his precarious little house in Camp Ruby?a place filled with promise. She soon gives birth to twin girls who are so alike that everyone whispers, "They share the same mind." Another special daughter follows, Zeda Earl. Scarred by a dark family secret, it takes angry, restless Zeda half a lifetime to learn what the village savant Billy Wiggins senses and Bessie always knew?"It's not who you're born, it's what you become."Read More