Beautiful Ashes

Shelly Edwards was fifteen when her alcoholic father murdered her mother, and in an instant she lost her home, her family, and the only world she had known. Left without support, she carried the weight of abuse and assault, faced poverty, and feared for her own life. She also had to untangle a web of falsehoods that had been woven through her life for decades.

In the middle of that gloom, God brought gifts she describes as heaven-sent, guiding her toward faith and into a calm she had never imagined possible. Later she meets the man she will marry and hopes her life will finally feel complete. Yet the injuries of her past and sudden, serious medical problems strain her faith, and she must ask whether she can recover from all she has suffered and trust God again.