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"Exciting character study"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted February 27, 2004

Divorced mother of four Martha Moore loves raising her children in Shelter Valley, Arizona where she was born and has lived her entire life though the teen years have become tiring as the older ones have begun to challenge her authority. She also enjoys her work as a production Read more...

"A Guardian Angel on the Job"
Reviewed by Marilyn Heyman
Posted March 20, 2004

Martha's husband walked out on her the year before to marry a woman half his age. She is left caring for four children - the eldest, Ellen, is in college, two teenage daughters and a young son. Life is not easy and Martha is bitter about what has Read more...

Summary

There's something happening in Shelter Valley...

Shelter Valley, Arizona, is the kind of place where everyone wants to live. Martha Moore, divorced mother of four, has spent her whole life here and can't imagine being anywhere else. But something frightening has happened, and it affects Martha and her children. It also touches David Cole Marks, the new minister in town.

Martha's a woman without faith, still bitter about a husband's betrayal. And David's a minister with secrets, a past that haunts him. But they have to put these burdens aside to work together, to make a difference to Shelter Valley. And each other?