When Through Deep Waters

by Rachelle Dekker

Paperback, 2018

Status

Available

Call number

813.6

Publication

Tyndale House Publishers (2018), Edition: Illustrated, 400 pages

Description

Fiction. Literature. Suspense. Thriller. HTML: Alicen McAffery finally has the life her mother always dreamed for her: a beautiful home in Santa Monica, a successful husband, and an adorable daughter. Then tragedy blows her carefully assembled facade to pieces. Worse yet-Alicen feels solely responsible. At rock bottom, she decides to accompany a childhood friend back to Red Lodge, Montana, where they spent summers together as kids. The peaceful mountain landscape, accented with lush forests and small-town charm, brings back happy memories of time spent with her beloved, eccentric Grandma Josephine. Alicen begins to hope that perhaps things could be different here. Perhaps the oppressive guilt will lift-if only for a moment. But when Alicen starts hearing voices and seeing mysterious figures near the river in the woods, she begins to fear she's completely lost her sanity, as it's rumored her grandmother did. Or might there be more to Red Lodge than meets the eye? Could the voices and visions be real-and her only means of finding the healing she so desperately needs? Or will they prove to be her final undoing?.… (more)

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

400 p.

ISBN

1496417135 / 9781496417138

UPC

031809000809

User reviews

LibraryThing member grumpydan
The story begins with Alicen’s daughter drowns in the family pool. Her marriages falls apart as does her life. A childhood friend invites her to Red Lodge, Montana to help he pack up her family’s belongings and Alicen seeks help at the Clover Mountain Retreat Center.

One would think this is a
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story of pain and learning to move forward after such grief, but it is more of a psychological and spiritual journey. Is it a thriller, I don’t believe so. The story moves slowly and I could not relate to Alicen, her mother nor the director of the retreat, Victoria (who has her own demons). I am not one for stories with a spiritual theme and this is one that I could not get into.
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LibraryThing member Virginia51
Fantastic story. There are so many twists and turns throughout the story. I had a very hard time putting this book down. It would be so horrible to live through what Alicen went through. She was unable to get past the idea that it was her fault that her daughter drowned. She goes to a place where
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she had been happy as a child with a long time friend to try to heal. Instead of healing she seems to get worse. I love how the author works through all this pain. This was so well done. I received a copy of this book from Tyndale Blog Network for a fair and honest opinion that I gave of my own free will.
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