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When betrayal breaks Katie McGowan’s heart, returning home to help care for her mother is an easy choice. Facing the faith she abandoned and the people she left behind isn’t so easy. Forced to ask herself difficult questions, Katie finds maybe there’s more to God and faith than what she grew up believing. Before her budding faith and a new chance at love take root, Katie’s world is rocked once more with the return of her past love asking for forgiveness and a second chance. Would her faith have her return to him or would returning destroy her newfound relationship with God?
The paths she has to choose from lead in entirely different directions. But which one is God’s will for her life?

What happens when happily ever after collides with the deep hurts of the past? How does a person of faith handle it when irrational fear ignites uncontrollable panic attacks?
These are the questions Katie McGowan faces as she faces her future and plans her wedding. Nighttime terrors evolve into daytime predators, robbing Katie of peace and paralyzing her with fear. Not wanting her fiance to worry, she tries to take on the fears on her own and nearly destroys their relationship in the process.
It takes a lesson in hope from an unlikely source for healing to begin. The nightmares holding Katie captive release her to enjoy God’s blessings. But when tragedies change her life forever, Katie’s understanding of hope is challenged. Unresolved anger and disappointment leave Katie doubting the sincerity of her beliefs. Desperate to prove her faith and minimize her failure as a believer, Katie buries her feelings beneath all the right words. Friends and family reach out to Katie, but can they help her find and cling to the hope she so desperately needs? Can Katie learn what true hope looks like when life has fallen apart?
Find out what hope really is along with Katie in Grasping Hope.
*Heather’s books can be purchased through Amazon and online at Barnes & Noble or Books-A-Million.