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Brandon’s wedding should be one of the most beautiful days of his life, but things take a bizarre turn when a long-hidden family secret unfurls in front of everyone. As the bride’s veil is tenderly lifted to reveal her face, he finds his father screaming and begging to stop the wedding.
It all felt like a dream to Martha. The gleaming 18-carat diamond on her ring finger, the love and warmth she felt each time her fiancé’s mother, Grace, hugged her, and the way life had made her cross paths with a loving man.
Martha had been extremely nervous telling Brandon she wanted to spend the rest of her life with him. She was worried his mother wouldn’t accept her. But things had changed quickly, and Grace had embraced her with open arms, accepting her for who she was.
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Martha and Brandon were poles apart when it came to backgrounds, even religious beliefs.
Brandon was a 22-year-old devout Christian from a protestant family, while Martha was someone who was indifferent to God or a higher power. She had never known what love meant and came from a broken family with a deceased mother, a missing father, no money, and absolutely no love or faith in God, whereas Brandon came from wealth and had a loving mother.
So Martha was shocked at how quickly her life had turned around. Grace accepted her with love and bestowed her heartfelt blessings on her and Brandon after seeing how madly her son was in love with her.
Martha had been without faith her entire life, but Grace’s love changed her. She even decided to worship Christ because she wanted to do it for the kind family she was going to marry into. But fate had bitter, devastating plans for all of them…
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Brandon couldn’t get Martha’s words out of his mind. “You know, I sometimes wish Mum had told me about Dad. I wished he had been there when I got married. I mean, every girl wants that. Don’t they?”
Martha’s mother had succumbed to cancer six years ago, leaving her an orphan. They had a few relatives scattered across the country, but they were as good as dead. So Martha felt very lonely and sad that she didn’t have anyone by her side she could call family or a father figure to walk...
