For months, Sylvia Asher’s husband, Ben, had asked for a divorce, saying their unhappy marriage could not be mended. Finally, Sylvia conceded and wrote in her journal, “I can no longer fight against a nameless, faceless woman Ben hasn’t seen in twenty-plus years. This cherished love so fills his heart as to leave no room to love me.”

 

Forty years after Sylvia wrote her sad lament, her daughter-in-law, Valerie Asher, gives Sylvia’s journals to Cameron, Valerie’s son and Sylvia’s grandson. As Cameron reads his grandmother’s fascinating descriptions of working with his beloved Grandpa, saving abused children and bringing many of their abusers to justice, Cameron unravels a four generations-long family saga of secrets, choices, and consequences that now estrange Cameron and his father, Randy Asher. Since no good deed goes un punished, Sylvia’s diaries lay bare long-forgotten, yet still painful connections that breach the dusty silence of time. Before the dust settles, Cameorn and his family will ask if the Holy Spirit can lift Cameron and his family. And if so, what will they learn from 2 Corinthians 1:9-10 (ESV): “Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead. 10 He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us.” Will God deliver Cameron, Lydia, and his family?