Root Beer and Roadblocks, book 4 of the Orchard Hill series
Susan M Baganz
Read an interview with the author here
February, Prism Book Group, an imprint of Pelican Ventures
LLC
$4.99 eBook
$15.99 Print
About the Book
When God strips away all your hopes and dreams can you trust
Him to give you something better?
Johnny Marshall's cancer is back . . . and so is the girl
who broke his heart seven years ago. As Johnny struggles to find the will to
live and fights his second round with the disease, he finds that hope comes in
small packages with an energetic little boy named David.
Having bought in to her parents' narrow view of finding a
man worthy of her, years ago, Katie abandoned the one man she'd ever loved. In
all the years since, no one has ever compared to Johnny. Now as a single mom of
a young boy, she wonders if their reunion right on time or is it too late for a
future together?
My review
The stories coming from Orchard Hill just keep getting
better and better, if you can call dealing with a lot of illness in various
fashion “better.” Lots of emotion and a whirl of events help a young couple reunite
under the most difficult circumstances.
Secrets come out of the closet in Root Beer and Roadblocks.
Return of cancer for a member of a popular praise band puts Johnny in a funk.
Even with the return of the woman of his dreams, he has a hard time willing a
desire to grab life. Katie is just discovering who she is…or isn’t, in her
opinion. When she realizes she’s turned herself “off,” so to speak, just to
deal with being alive and handling devastating circumstances within a
classically dysfunctional family, revelations of the stuff of nightmares aren’t
as much of a shock. Together Katie and Johnny know they can win any obstacle
course, especially with the fruit of their first love, David, and love for another
child who comes into their lives and needs them, Khloe.
There’s a lot of ups and downs, tears all around, hugs and
passion in this story of forgiveness and grace, and future uncertainties. Told
in multiple viewpoints, old friends from the past stories haunt the pages in a
good way, and it truly come around to needing a village to make life a good one
for each other and our children. Nicely done, occasionally tear-jerking.
Recommended for readers of contemporary romantic stories and couples learning
to deal with the realities after the “I do.”
Areas in the Milwaukee metroplex, Horicon, Fond du Lac, and a couple of hours in Chicago make up the setting
