The Heart Mender: A Story of Second Chances (Island of Saints: A Story of the One Principle That Frees the Human Spirit)

✍ Scribed by Andrews, Andy

• Book ID: 109925601
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc.
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 500 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

A unique blend of historical fact and engaging fiction showing the power of forgiveness.

While digging up a withering wax myrtle tree beside his waterfront home on the Gulf coast, author Andy Andrews unearths a rusted metal container filled with Nazi artifacts and begins an intriguing investigation that unlocks an unspoken past that took place in his backyard...literally.

In 1942, as the country gears up for a full–scale commitment to WWII, German subs are dispatched to the Gulf of Mexico to sink U.S. vessels carrying goods and fuel. While taking a late–night walk, Helen Mason–widowed by war–discovers the near–lifeless body of a German sailor. Enraged at the site of Josef Landermann's uniform, Helen is prepared to leave him to die when an unusual phrase, faintly uttered, changes her mind.

Set in a period simmering with anger and suspicion The Heart Mender offers the very real chronicle of a __small town preparing itself for the worst the world has to offer. As...