Redeeming Love

 

Shirley J.                Adult Fiction                          Sexual Abuse, Prostitution, Forgiveness

Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers  512 pages

A young girl, named Sara, is loved dearly by her mother but is unfortunately the lovechild of her mother with a wealthy married man.   The man did not want her and tried to get her mother to abort her.   Sara's mother kept her hoping the girl's father would change his mind and accept her as his child.  He never did and eventually broke off his romance with her mother.  Unable to go back home due to her parents not wanting the social stigma of an illegitimate grandchild, her mother moved out of their fine accommodations to a shack down by the river where she became a prostitute to keep a roof over their heads and meager food to eat.    When her mother died Sara was only 8 years old and the man who her mother had let live with them took over Sara's care, but being a drunk he sold her to a child molester leading to a life of prostitution when Sara gets too old for the molester's tastes, he sells her to a brothel.   The story goes on to talk about her life at the brothel, her clientele and how God sends a Christian man into her life.   Many things happen along the way and Sara is in and out of prostitution, working a farm, forced into a sexual situation she does not want, more back and forth and making friends and trying to find her way as she runs from God's forgiveness.   A tale of a woman beat down by situations out of her control, her tough exterior that hides her low self-esteem and a man of faith who won't give up on her as he heeds God's call on his life.    A good story, that if people would just be honest with each other could have saved them a whole heap of trouble.   I would recommend this one to mature teens on up.