Lydia Porter loves everything about her job as a teacher at Shadrach High School. But recently she's become concerned about one of her students, Shelby Tatum, who seems troubled. Convinced that Shelby's problems go beyond common teenage angst, she confronts her--only to have Shelby accuse Charlie Staines, the popular history teacher, of sexually abusing her. Suddenly Lydia is faced with the hardest decision of her life, for Charlie Staines is not only her colleague, he's her fiance, and the man she believes God sent as the answer to her lonely prayers. But can she stand beside her man in the wake of such suspicion, or must she unflinchingly support the confused and grieving girl whose life will forever be altered by her decision?
Deborah Bedford is a USA TODAY bestselling author whose books have sold over 1.5 million copies in combined print, including A Morning Like This (Warner, 10/02), A Rose by the Door (Warner, 11/01), and Harvest Dance (HarperCollins, 1997), among others. She is also a contributor to the 1997 HarperCollins anthology Homecoming.
Deborah Bedford's novels have been published in 20 countries and translated into 11 languages.
The author was a finalist for the Holt Medallion and a winner of the Colorado Romance Writers' Award of Excellence and the Wyoming Writers' Milestone Award.
