The Miracle of Mercy Land

What if you had the power to AMEND CHOICES YOU MADE IN THE PAST? Would you do it even if it CHANGED EVERYTHING?

Mercy Land has made some unexpected choices for a young woman in the 1930s. The sheltered daughter of a traveling preacher, she chooses to leave her rural community to move to nearby Bay City on the warm, gulf-waters of southern Alabama. There she finds a job at the local paper and spends seven years making herself indispensible to old Doc Philips, the publisher and editor. Then she gets a frantic call at dawn—it’s the biggest news story of her life, and she can’t print a word of it.

Doc has come into possession of a curious book that maps the lives of everyone in Bay City—decisions they’ve made in the past, and how those choices affect the future. Mercy and Doc are consumed by the mystery locked between the pages—Doc because he hopes to right a very old wrong, and Mercy because she wants to fulfill the book’s strange purpose. But when a mysterious stranger shows up, Mercy begins to understand she may have to choose between love and loneliness . . . or good and evil . . . for the rest of her life.

I could not put this book down. It has such a sense of suspensful urgency to find out what this book is and what is going to happen. This one of those books that speaks to your heart and mind in ways you can't explain to others, but you know you've been touched. It will get to you think about the choices you've made and have yet to make and the impact they  have on the lives of those around you.  The message, "it's not all about me" beautifully shines through.   A fantastic book club choice.

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RIVER JORDAN began her writing career as a playwright with the Loblolly Theatre group. She teaches and speaks nationwide on ‘The Power of Story’, is a monthly contributor to the southern authors’ collective A Good Blog is Hard To Find, and produces and hosts the weekly radio program CLEARSTORY with River Jordan, in Nashville, where she and her husband live. She is the author of Saints in Limbo and this is her fourth novel.

Thank you to KBK Public Relations and WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review copy.