Unanswered Prayers

THE PREACHER HAD MARRIED A FLOOZY!

The church deacons were scandalized when the young Reverend Howard Blake announced he'd up and married that "painted woman," Eva Carmichael, and brought her back home to Crystal Creek. And not only was she a trashy, jaded-by-Hollywood, aspiring actress, she was pregnant!

Forty-odd years later, newly married Maggie Langley had had no clue that her beloved mother was held in such contempt by her hometown contemporaries. But during a vigil requiring supreme faith, Eva decided to pierce her daughter's cynicism with the astounding story of the Blakes' stormy first year together--and apart.