ABOUT THE BOOK
How far would you go to fix the mistakes you’ve made and regain the trust you lost? For Jade Jessup, the answer is 2,448 miles. Once one of Chicago’s significant financial advisors, Jade lost her credibility when her fiancé (and coworker) stole millions of dollars from their clients in a Ponzi scheme. Now she’s agreed to help one of them–an aging 1960s Hollywood starlet named Berenice “Benny” Alderidge–seek financial restoration.
Jade sets off along Route 66 with Benny and her handsome adult foster son, Bridger, who is filming a documentary retracing the 1956 trip that started the love story between Benny and her recently deceased husband, Paul. Listening to Benny recount her story draws Jade into memories of her own darker association with Route 66, when she was kidnapped as a child by a man the media labeled a monster–but she remembers only as daddy.
Together, all three of these pilgrims will learn about family, forgiveness, and what it means to live free of the past. But not before Jade faces a second staggering betrayal that changes everything.
MY THOUGHTS
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It tugged at my heartstrings.
Benny, Bridger and Jade stole my heart. They just topped the chart of my favourite characters. It was how their lives bled through the pages. Their lives illustrated truths of faith, family, love so beautifully. The grace at which Benny lived her life was so inspiring. Hers and Paul’s love story should be a classic. Jade’s and Bridger’s similar chidhoods tugged at my heart. But what was interesting and admirable was the responsible individuals they turned out to be. Yes, they had their flaws but as the story progressed, those flaws that were supposed to make them misfits enabled them to be individuals whose mission in life was to make the world a better place.
This is a book I will hold dear to my heart for a long time.
I received a copy of this book and this is my honest opinion.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17291271.Janine_Rosche
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