There, He Holds Her (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798234021229)

Some love stories end. Others just go underground.

There, He Holds Her is a dual - timeline novel for readers who want to be swept away and wrecked a little - in the best way.

1979, Plockton, Texas

Eighteen - year - old Vivian Chelsee sneaks out on graduation night to meet the boy she loves. By morning, everything has changed - and not in the way she dreamed. What her family calls protecting her future, she will spend a lifetime quietly questioning.

2018, Rutherglen, Texas

Vivian's daughter, Rev. Heti Stone, has built her life on discipline, denial, and an upcoming bishop nomination. Then Aunt Moira dies and all her plans unravel. An alluring stranger shows up at her church who has absolutely no interest in who she's supposed to be. Old family secrets surface that were not intended to be heard. Dreams bleed into waking life. The dead feel close. To move forward, Heti must face what women in her family were taught to sacrifice - and reckon with the possibility that love, grief, and the Divine don't always show up the way the Church said they would. To move forward, Heti must wrestle with the question:

What if your deepest desires were never shameful at all -  but holy ground?