Review: The Key on the Quilt by Stephanie Grace Whitson

Publisher's Description:

God’s Plan Revealed. . .Stitch by Stitch

 

From a distance, the building may resemble a castle, but it’s the last place Jane Prescott, Mamie Dawson, and Ellen Sullivan thought they’d be, and the last place they expected to see love grow.

 

Broken in spirit and wondering if God has abandoned her, Jane is serving a ten-year sentence at the Nebraska State Penitentiary, even as she hides a startling secret. How will one caring physician help unravel the hidden meaning behind Jane’s courthouse steps quilt?

 

Mamie told God she’d go anywhere, never dreaming He’d send her to nurture women the world had forgotten. But while helping those around her, will she stubbornly keep the attentions of a kind guard at arm’s length?

 

Ellen was never going to leave Kentucky, but then marriage made her a Nebraska warden’s wife. Can she reach past uncertainty and fear to find God’s purpose in it all?

 

Together, these three women form an unlikely friendship that takes them to the end of themselves and, ultimately, on a journey that proves prison walls can neither frustrate God’s plans nor keep love out. 

My Review:

The Key on the Quilt takes you inside the women's ward at the Nebraska State Penitentiary. With enough suspence to keep the reader hooked, this book chronicles the budding friendships of the prisoners, their female overseer and the warden's wife. The story reminds us to remember God's grace notes and to thank Him for the small joys that He sends our way no matter what circumstance we might be in.

One for the "must buy" list.

My Rating:

Publisher: Barbour Publishing Inc.

Publication Date: 1 March 2012

Note: I received pre-release access to this book free from the publisher via NetGalley for the purposes of review. I am not required to give a positive review, just an honest one. The opinions expressed are my own.