Syd

HOW WRONG SHE WASEight years ago, Sydney Patterson's ex-husband used threats and fear to coerce her teenage daughter into the unthinkable. Haunted by guilt and condemned by her in-laws, she flees to Garfield Oklahoma to build a new life. Now, with a new job, new friends, and a new commitment to Christ, Syd is rebuilding, confident that no one ever needs to know a thing about her humiliating and shameful past.BE HER FRIENDAfter five years of widowhood, Mason Saxton wants more than friendship with the pretty blonde he met at his son's wedding. He's praying about it, and the only thing he's heard from God is an injunction to "be her friend." He's more than willing to start there---at least he was until a vile misunderstanding sends him reeling.A MATTER OF TRUST AND FORGIVENESSA marvelous future hangs in the balance, and it all depends on Syd's ability to trust and Mason's willingness to forgive. How will these two new believers reconcile the past with the future? Small-town Oklahoma and the friendships they produce are embedded in Sharon Srock's heart. After spending her first fifteen years on the move, living in fourteen homes and attending thirteen schools, she landed in a tiny central Oklahoma community and made it her own. As someone who's been blessed to be a part of the same hometown church for more than five decades, Sharon writes stories of hope built from her own unique perspective-stories that demonstrate a sisterhood formed not by blood but by heart, where ordinary women are able to do extraordinary things thanks to the friends who surround them and the faith that pulls them through. Sharon still lives in the middle of nowhere, Oklahoma, with her husband and three very large dogs. When she isn't writing, she loves to read, cook, and travel. One of these days, she's going to figure out how to do all three at the same time.