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Mary Hanks wants to inspire hearts with stories of second chances and the journey "back" to love. She and Jason have been married for thirty-nine years and raised four children. They know firsthand what it means to get a second chance with each other, and with God.
Mary worked in Christian education for eighteen years. She still loves Youth Theater, and has written twenty full-stage productions and is directing her twenty-sixth. She and Jason live in the country near Blanchard, Idaho. Besides writing, Mary enjoys meeting her kids in town for coffee, reading, crocheting, and hiking in the woods, enjoying the beauty.
Reviewed by Catrina Sparkman for Readers' Favorite
Winter’s Past is the first book in contemporary Christian romance writer Mary E. Hanks' Second Chances Series. Winter’s Past tells the story of Winter Cowan, a Christian Evangelist and motivational speaker. Winter’s ministry, Passion’s Prayer, travels all around the country in a beat-up old jalopy of a station wagon, preaching the Word of God. When Winter’s prayer conference is canceled unexpectedly in one city, due to the death of the wife of the host church's pastor, Winter and her team receive a last minute invitation to go to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, a city Winter has avoided like the plague for the last ten years and one she has no intention of ever returning to again. But Winter and her Passion Prayer ministry staff are full time ministers of the gospel, so the ministry conference booking in Coeur d’Alene is a godsend. Winter can’t afford to turn it down, certainly not without spilling the beans to her team about the handsome Ty Williams and the details of their brief but shameful past. Winter must prepares herself mentally and spiritually to return to Coeur d’Alene, to face her past, and the man who broke her heart.
I really enjoyed Mary E. Hanks' Winter’s Past. I found it to be a pleasantly sweet and super fun romantic read. I’m a confessed sucker for great plots, second chances, and happy endings and Mary E. Hanks' Winter’s Past has all of the above. This is a book that does not disappoint.
