02016cam a2200397 i 4500 509362122 TxAuBib 20210824120000.0 140327s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2014003681 9780764212253 pbk. 0764212257 pbk. TxAuBib rda Thomas, Sarah Loudin. Miracle in a dry season [Print] / Sarah Loudin Thomas. Paperback edition. Minneapolis, Minnesota : Bethany House, [2014] 300 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Appalachian Blessings ; 1 In a Drought, It's the Darkest Cloud That Brings Hope It's 1954 and Perla Long's arrival in the sleepy town of Wise, West Virginia, was supposed to go unnoticed. She just wants a quiet, safe place for her and her daughter, Sadie, where the mistakes of her past can stay hidden. But then drought comes to Wise, and Perla is pulled into the turmoil of a town desperately in need of a miracle. Casewell Phillips has resigned himself to life as a bachelor...until he meets Perla. She's everything he's sought in a woman, but he can't get past the sense that she's hiding something. As the drought worsens, Perla's unique gift divides the town in two, bringing both gratitude and condemnation, and placing the pair in the middle of a storm of anger and forgiveness, fear and faith. 20210824. Selah Award for Debut Novel (2015.) INSPY for Debut Fiction (2015.) Single mothers Fiction. Bachelors Fiction. Women cooks Fiction. Public opinion Fiction. Love stories. West Virginia Fiction. Christian fiction. Appalachian Blessings ; 1. TXTLL