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    The City of Eternal Spring - Christian Romance
    The City of Eternal Spring - Christian Romance
    The City of Eternal Spring - Christian Romance
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    The City of Eternal Spring - Christian Romance

    By Johanna Jenkins

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    Beth isn't running away. At least that's what she tells herself when she agrees to take on a temporary mission position teaching English at a children's home and school near Cuernavaca, Mexico. The truth is, she only took the job, in part, to get away from her alcoholic father and her difficult brother, both of whom have been at each other's throats since her mother died in a tragic car accident six months ago. Now, she's looking for a summer full of meaningful work and free of personal conflict. Unfortunately, she only gets half of what she's looking for. Plenty of personal conflict comes with her fellow teacher at the school, Brent. Brent an American who grew up in Mexico, works full time at the school and is suspicious of and sometimes hostile towards missionaries who come to work in Mexico only for a few months and then leave. None the less, Beth does her best to work with her difficult partner and, as the weeks go on, she finds that she and Brent develop a tentative sort of friendship. But, when family drama from home threatens to interfere with her work in Mexico, Beth finds herself with a difficult choice. Should she stay in Mexico, doing the work that she is sure God wants her to do? Or should she go home and be the peacemaker in her family, as she always has in the past? Can her new partner, Brent, help her discover her true purpose?

    A Standalone Short Story with HEA! 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherClean & Wholesome Romance Club
    Release dateNov 21, 2018
    ISBN9781386749844
    The City of Eternal Spring - Christian Romance

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      The City of Eternal Spring - Christian Romance - Johanna Jenkins

      The City of Eternal Spring

      Chapter 1

      Beth was exhausted . She could barely keep her eyes open as she leaned against the cool window of the bus that wound its way through the mountain pass just outside of Cuernavaca. Her cell phone was pressed against her ear and she listened to her brother’s annoyed voice drone on like the static on a barely tuned radio.

      I still don’t get why you had to go so far, he said for what felt like the millionth time. I mean, why do you have to go all the way to Mexico to help people?

      Beth closed her eyes as much in exasperation as exhaustion. She’d had this talk with her brother every day since she’d decided to go on this temporary missionary posting. He’d pressed the same arguments at her ever since she’d signed her name to that list at their church back home in Oklahoma.

      I told you, Jack, she said. It’s a personal thing. I just feel like I need to get away.

      You’re lucky you get to run away, then, Jack said a bitter tone to his voice. I’m stuck here with Dad. You know what he’s like. And it’s gotten worse since Mom... here he broke off as though not sure how to finish the sentence.

      ...since Mom, he finished lamely. Beth felt a twinge in her stomach that caused her to wake up slightly. That twinge was accompanied by a deep pain in her chest at the mention of her mother.

      It had been less than six months since the accident. Less than six months since her mother died, pinned beneath the frame of a car. 

      Ever since, she’d pretended, at least to Jack and her father that, by going to Mexico, she wasn’t running away. Not really. She told them she felt like God was calling her to Mexico, and that said Mom would want her to keep doing good, to keep helping people.

      Now, when she heard her brother’s desperate and broken voice, she recognized, with a stab of guilt that the reasons she’d given for leaving were only partly true.

      It was true that she wanted to help people. It was true that Beth had always felt a certain calling to mission work. But, it was also true that she was running away.

      Now that she had graduated from college, she’d had nowhere to go but home for the summer while she searched for a job. As soon as she arrived, she’d realized that she could not stand being in the same house as her alcoholic father who, despite her best efforts to forgive, she still blamed for her mother’s death.

      And, though she hated to admit it, she couldn’t stay in the same house as Jack. Her bitter little brother was outwardly hostile to their father and screamed at him far too often.

      Now, listening to Jack on the other line of the phone, she knew she that what she’d done was a bit selfish. All the same, she’d been the peacekeeper between her father and brother even before their mother died. All she wanted was one summer where she didn’t have to come between them.

      It’s only for the summer, Jack, Beth assured him. Then you’ll be going back to college anyway.

      Yeah, Jack said sardonically. "In the meantime,

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