Samantha Bravencourt is working in her mother’s clothing boutique after returning from her position as a teacher in a refugee camp. Things seem calm until she receives a wedding invitation from an old college classmate. Samantha travels from Falls Church, Virginia to Winston-Salem, North Carolina to attend the wedding. Problem is the bride is not her friend, but someone with the same name. Rather than return home immediately she spends more time with her Aunt Dovie and her boarders. Dovie is very active in the area and invites Sam to join her at a butterfly release at a memorial service for children who passed away. While there she meets one of her former refugee camp students. This opens a doorway for the reader into the events that took place in the camp during Sam’s time there. The book chapters alternate between those refugee camp years and present day so at no point is the reader left wondering what happened. Sam is reunited with former fellow teacher, Carson Brylie, and another former student who wants to find her mother who gave her up and later emigrated to the United States. Carson and Sam work with Lien to find her mother and arrange a reunion.
And to think it all started with a wedding invitation.
I received this book to review for no cost from Bethany House.
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