02421cam a2200457 4500 380221808 TxAuBib 20190408120000.0 171023s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780718084745 0718084748 (OCoLC)1007507993 TxAuBib Martin, Charles, 1969- Send down the rain / Charles Martin. Nashville, Tennessee : Thomas Nelson, [2018] 341 pages ; 25 cm. "A novel"--Jacket. Includes discussion questions. Allie is still recovering from the loss of her family's beloved waterfront restaurant on Florida's Gulf Coast when she loses her second husband to a terrifying highway accident. Devastated and losing hope, she shudders to contemplate the future-- until a cherished person from her past returns. Joseph has been adrift for many years, wounded in both body and spirit and unable to come to terms with the trauma of his Vietnam War experiences. Just as he resolves to abandon his search for peace and live alone at a remote cabin in the Carolina mountains, he discovers a mother and her two small children lost in the forest. A man of character and strength, he instinctively steps in to help them get back to their home in Florida. There he will return to his own hometown-- and witness the accident that launches a bittersweet reunion with his childhood sweetheart, Allie. When Joseph offers to help Allie rebuild her restaurant, it seems the flame may reignite until a 45-year-old secret from the past begins to emerge, threatening to destroy all hope for their second chance at love. 20190408. Man-woman relationships. Man-woman relationships. Fiction. Secrecy. Secrecy. Fiction. First loves. First loves. Fiction. Widows. Widows. Fiction. Veterans. Veterans. Fiction. Restaurateurs. Restaurateurs. Fiction. FICTION / Christian / Romance. FICTION / Small Town & Rural. Florida. Florida. Fiction. Romance fiction. Christian fiction. TXDRI