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Praying Home the Mantis: Terry's Garden, #4
Praying Home the Mantis: Terry's Garden, #4
Praying Home the Mantis: Terry's Garden, #4
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After my parents split, I spent summers with my dad, who lived next door to this huge family. Savannah was the first to find me, one of the girls my age, and she was sunny and happy and never let me get sad about my family. She made adventures, and her yard was magical, and summers became the best part of my year.

Nobody knew what my winters were like, and I didn't plan to tell them. Why would I want Savvy to stop smiling? And Dad tried, but there wasn't much he can do. Mom was a little crazy, and school was awful, but I could handle it because I knew summer would roll around again. I lived for summer, which fed my entire year.

 

Then Dad got married. There was a new baby on the way, and I had a new brother, a year older. I wished more than ever that I could live in my summer world with my good family, with Savvy next door, with magic all the time. Then Mom… Well, Mom did a few good things, and then she followed it up with a few bad, and winters got even darker. Lately I don't know if summer is enough to carry me. Winters get longer every year, and summers aren't long enough to warm up the ice they leave in my life.

 

But if I disappear in this world, Savvy will stop smiling. How can I live in my life and still keep Savvy smiling? Sometimes it all just feels impossible…

 

Praying Home the Mantis, the story of Sebastian and Savannah, is book four in the Terry's Garden series, stories about a huge family, an enchanting garden, and a love story that touches generations. Christian coming-of-age/romance novels for teens and anyone who remembers what it's like to take those first wobbling steps into adulthood.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherJill Penrod
Release dateJun 8, 2017
ISBN9781386458616
Praying Home the Mantis: Terry's Garden, #4
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Jill Penrod

Jill Penrod wrote her first novel in high school. It was a space opera (she watched Star Wars A LOT), and it was not great literature. But she persevered, graduating college with top honors in writing. Since then, she’s published more than thirty novels. She writes in several  genres including Christian teen romance, sweet romance, Christian fantasy stories, and non-fiction. None of them are space operas. Jill lives in Kentucky with her husband and youngest son. She has three adult children out there doing adult things like work and marriage. When she isn’t writing, she gardens and spoils her long-haired Chihuahua Sparrow, along with a few other cats and dogs. Recently she fulfilled her dream of moving to the country, although it has yet to be seen if this city mouse can become a country mouse or not.  

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