Paint the Desert: A Christian Contemporary Novel

By Dawn V. Cahill

When violence visits an ordinary college campus one day in San Rafael, California, it threatens to tear apart a community, and a family, in its aftermath.Newlyweds Jon and Meg Paulson are honeymooning in Hawaii when they receive the news that Meg's son Richard was seriously injured in a seemingly random school shooting. When they return home, they find him in a deep coma, with the doctors uncertain if he will ever recover. Meg struggles to find answers and to understand why God allowed this to happen.With the investigation into the shooter's motives ongoing, Meg seeks support from a local grief group, where she finds that helping another grief-stricken mother helps speed her own journey from despair to hope. But her distress is creating strain in her brand-new marriage. She also finds herself at odds with her daughter when Linzee's gun control activism pits her against her own mother.Meanwhile, Linzee fears the new man in her life will find out the one thing from her past she never wants him to know. Can she give her fear over to God and open her heart to love?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 099745217X
• ISBN13: 9780997452174
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Spring Mountain Publishing
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"