{"product_id":"love-on-the-line-a-novel-isbn-9780063092952","title":"Love on the Line: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIdentity, attitudes, and culture collide as a mother and\u003cbr\u003edaughter's values and backgrounds are challenged by everyone around them in\u003cbr\u003ethis newly updated version of a Laura Castoro classic.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThea Morgan—\u003cem\u003eno\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cbr\u003eThornton—is thrilled about starting life with her new husband Xavier. After so many years apart, it was truly a blessing\u003cbr\u003ethat they found each other again. But the new life is going to take some\u003cbr\u003eadjustment. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsed to being high-powered lawyer, Thea is having difficulty balancing\u003cbr\u003ethat with her new role as the preacher’s wife in small town Arkansas. And the\u003cbr\u003etownspeople in Xavier’s new parish are watching her life a hawk—most of all,\u003cbr\u003eMrs. Hattie Patterson, the chairwoman of Pastoral Relations Committee, who has\u003cbr\u003eher own ideas about how things should be done. With her demanding job and light\u003cbr\u003eskin, Thea will have to go far to prove to the people—Mrs. Hattie—of St.\u003cbr\u003eHurricane AME Church that she can be who she is and still be one of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the other side of the country, Thea’s daughter Jesse is having an\u003cbr\u003eidentity crisis of her own. Off at college and away from those who’ve known her\u003cbr\u003efor her entire life, Jesse has the chance to reinvent herself. But is it a\u003cbr\u003echance worth taking? The child of a light-skinned black woman and a white man,\u003cbr\u003eJesse has blond hair and blue eyes. No one would know her heritage if she\u003cbr\u003edidn’t tell them, leaving Jesse to face a difficult realization: is she forging\u003cbr\u003ea new path in life, free of any preconceived notions? Or is she hiding her\u003cbr\u003eidentity and denying her roots?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith skill and grace,\u003cbr\u003eLaura Castoro deftly examines issues of race and women’s place in the world\u003cbr\u003ethat fans, new and old, will revel in for years to come.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Entertaining, touching, and insightful.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips on Crossing the Line\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Kudos to Laura Castoro for creating an amazingly realistic romance novel that speaks to the pain, happiness, love and drama that transcend all races and cultures. Her characters are a combination of the simple, everyday people, and those complicated creatures born just a cut above the norm. We know them all... and that allows us to laugh out loud at their mishaps, and to celebrate their happy endings.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJanis Kearney, author of Cotton Field of Dreams: A Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A wonderful and timely love story that shows us how love and faith can make a healing bridge between our past and the future. Moving and lovely.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSandra Kitt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Laura Castoro is back with Thea Morgan and her daughter, Jesse, as they turn heartaches of the past into promises for the future. An authentic, warmly told story of love lost and reclaimed.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA'Lelia Bundles, Author, On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Laura Castoro writes passionate stories that tug at the heart and resonate with you long after the last page has been read.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrancis Ray\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Castoro’s many-faceted novel honestly addresses significant universal issues—the give-and-take of marriage, self-sacrifice, the search for identity, prejudice, and preconceptions. Readers who enjoy emotionally fulfilling stories will find that this one more than fits the bill.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889512968421,"sku":"NP9780063092952","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780063092952.jpg?v=1730231408","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/love-on-the-line-a-novel-isbn-9780063092952","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}