{"product_id":"when-the-gold-shows-through-carrie-lawson-9798171468675","title":"When the Gold Shows Through","description":"\u003cp\u003ePreviously published as A Place Beside Me by Carrie Lawson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt fifty-six, Carrie Bennett has built a life she is proud of.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe has a home she loves, grown children and grandchildren who fill her world, a steady job, a church family, creative passions, and-perhaps most precious of all-the peace she fought hard to find. After a difficult marriage taught her how easily a woman can lose herself, Carrie has no intention of giving that peace away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Jonathan Hayes enters her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt sixty-one, Jonathan is a Black widower who understands love, loss, faith, and beginning again. Carrie, a white woman whose own family has long reflected more than one race, isn't unfamiliar with interracial love. What she isn't prepared for is Jonathan himself-a steady, thoughtful man who doesn't need her to become someone else in order to love her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat begins quietly through conversation, friendship, faith, and unexpected moments of connection slowly becomes something neither of them planned.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut loving again means confronting old fears. Carrie must decide whether she can open her heart without surrendering the woman she worked so hard to become. Jonathan must learn that loving Carrie doesn't mean fixing her life-it means honoring the life she already has.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in the fictional Texas town of Golden Briar, When the Gold Shows Through is a tender, faith-filled mature contemporary romance about family, healing, second chances, and two people discovering that love later in life can be something entirely different from starting over.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause sometimes the darkness remains part of the picture-but the gold still finds its way through.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carrie Lawson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798171468675\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/02\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 528\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.18d","brand":"Carrie Lawson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50546052497663,"sku":"9798171468675","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/when-the-gold-shows-through-carrie-lawson-9798171468675","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}