Tucker's Bride

By Lois Richer

After seven years, the man who promised to marry Ginny Brown returns to Jubilee Junction. But Tucker has lost his faith in God, and he knows only Ginny can help him. Ginny thinks God now has something else in store for her, because even if Tucker regains his faith, there is no guarantee he'll love her again. Unless, deep down, he never stopped. (August)

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0373871899
• ISBN13: 9780373871896
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Steeple Hill
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.3" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

Finding one who is lost

In the Bible, Jacob works for Rachel for seven years but we're told that the time passes as if only a day or two. That is love. In this romance, Tucker Townsend has left the small town of his childhood for "the big bad world" as Ginny puts it and has made his mark as a journalist. He once loved Ginny, but she doubts that he still does until he returns home and asks her to lead him back to God. While Ginny's faith has remained strong, Tucker has lost his somewhere between the warring factions in Africa and the suicide bombings he's covered in the Middle East. The question of "If God, why evil?" comes up and the author handles it pretty well. The plot involves Tucker regaining his faith by becoming an example to a local group of kids. The kids are supposed to be troublemakers, but they're not nearly as bad as real-life gangs are. My only problem with the story is the lack of characterization. Tom is supposed to the be the leader of this gang, but he doesn't offer any resistance to help in the form of Tucker's suggestions. Riley, a man who asks Ginny to marry him, disappears around the second or third chapters, and is never heard from again. C.S. Lewis wrote: "As an atheist, my argument against God was that the world seemed cruel and unjust." This is also Tucker's problem; he sees firsthand the evil that men can do and can't reconcile this with a benevolent God. However, Lewis then goes on: "But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?" This realization led Lewis out of atheism and eventually into Christianity. Tucker also comes to realize that you can't know evil unless you know good.

A Promise: Kept or Broken

Years before Tucker Townsend had promised to marry Ginny Brown. Now he's back in town after having been engaged to some one else and broken that engagement. Ginny is still single and still waiting, much to the annoyance of at least one of the towns bachelors. He has not come back to claim Ginny. Instead he has come back to ask her help in finding his way back to God.