Leota’s Garden novel by Francine Rivers

Leota’s garden was once a place of beauty were flowers bloomed, and Hope thrived. It was her refuge from the deep wounds inflicted by a devastating war, her sanctuary, where she knelt before a loving God and prayed for the children who couldn’t understand her silent sacrifices. Now 84 year olds Leota Reinhardt is alone, her beloved garden and ruins. All of her efforts to reconcile with her adult children have been fruitless, and she voices her despair to a loving father, her only friend. Then God brings a wind of change through unlikely means one a college student who thinks he has all the answers, the other, the granddaughter Leota never hoped to know. But can the devastation by the keeping painful family secrets be repaired before she runs out of time?