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When the Road Comes Around
Christian contemporary romance
When the Road Comes Around
Troubled Tad takes work at Come Around Ranch and forms an unexpected bond with Sam, a disabled boy, and TJ, a rescue horse carrying scars of its own. Ranch owner Anita is managing rheumatoid arthritis while trying to give people and animals the second chances others have written off. When Tad's past creates fresh trouble, the fragile trust built at the ranch is tested. This contemporary novel centers found family, disability, rescue animals, grace, and the possibility that belonging can begin with being given useful work and one more chance.
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Physical disability and chronic illness (rheumatoid arthritis); troubled young adult with a history of poor choices; vulnerable/disabled child; rescue horse; family strain and escalating trouble; Christian themes of grace and redemption.
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