Title: The Trouble with Tulips
Author: Emily Dana Botrous
Date: 2020
Publisher: Emily Dana Botrous
Quote: "Yes, Seattle. You'd be five doors down from me."
Kim's old school friend Dianna doesn't call or write often, but when she calls Kim to describe a job opening in Seattle, Kim sends in an application. She's not sure how to tell anyone in Claywood, Virginia, that her job working for a grouchy old real estate agent is not good enough for her, so she says nothing--to her parents, her devoted brother, her other friends, or even her brother's buddy on whom she's always had a crush. Her mother, who has lupus, was ill when she threw away an envelope from an unknown company that Kim quietly fished out of the trash. It contained the letter notifying her that she'd been selected for the job.
Meanwhile, Kim's brother's buddy Jake, still mourning for family members who died in a traffic accident, notices that Kim's grown up now. But how can he marry her when he wasn't able to protect his family, or the pets he used to have?
Kim has thought Jake was more attractive every year they've known each other. But why would he even ask her for a date? She has an ordinary face, what she considers heavy upper legs, and a tiresome allergy to insect venom. How could a man ever fall in love with her?
Kim and Jake are Christians and they need to face their insecurities as the spiritual problems they are. Then they can fall in love and live happily ever after.
This early Claywood novel is not quite as rich as some of the others, but it still has more substance than the average romance. As with the others, all Christians who like wholesome romances will enjoy the story, and everyone from the Point of Virginia should enjoy the fictional town of Claywood. (It's not Gate City, it's not Duffield, it's not Pennington Gap, it's not Clintwood, it's not any of the real small towns from which people drive to shop in Bristol or Abingdon. It's an invented place with a strong resemblance to all of them.)
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