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The Promise of Forgiveness
Reviews
“A book about family and forgiveness with interesting characters in a small Oklahoma town makes for a fun read.”
Red Carpet Crash
"The Promise of Forgiveness is an absorbing tale of our human frailties and strengths."
Heroes and Heartbreakers
"THE PROMISE OF FORGIVENESS is in a category by itself as a character-driven story that is emotional, thought provoking and full of love. It's gritty like the dust that blows through the Panhandle. It will make you smile and cry before you sigh with relief when it looks as though they'll all be okay. A great novel with life-like, tenacious characters in need of a promise for tomorrow, THE PROMISE OF FORGIVENESS pulls at your heartstrings with the complexity of humanity."
Romance Junkies
"An emotional journey through years of hurt and disappointment in the lives of several characters. The power of forgiveness is shining bright … forgiving yourself, forgiving those who hurt you, and most of all, forgiving the pain that has kept you standing still all these years.”
Thoughts of a Blonde
“I liked Marin’s main characters. They are real, with faults and shortcomings, yet good inside. It really speaks to the saying, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” As the story progresses, Ruby must deal with the rocky relationship with her daughter, the uncertain relationship with her birth father, Hank McArthur, and the unexpected relationship with the ranch hand, Joe Dawson, on her journey to happiness. I like how Marin peels away the layers of life’s hurts, like peeling an onion.”
The Lit Buzz
“Marin Thomas made me care about her characters and cheer them on their journey of understanding, acceptance and forgiveness.The novel is filled with colorful secondary characters (the sheriff, the bar owner, and the proprietor of the general store – to name a few) who added a good deal to the plot. There was also a mystery to solve – who was sabotaging the ranch and why? The Promise of Forgiveness is the author’s first women’s fiction novel after publishing more than two dozen romance novels. I enjoyed it and recommend it to fans of Marin Thomas and women’s fiction”
Book Fan Mary
Meet The Characters
Ruby
A woman who is as hard
as the gemstone
she’s named after...
Mia
A teenage daughter who’d like nothing more than
to quit her mother...
Joe
A ranch hand living
with a secret that is eating away at his soul...
Hank
A hardened rancher facing his mortality and
seeking forgiveness from
the daughter he gave
away at birth...
"The Promise of Forgiveness is wonderful, contemporary fiction that is more than pleasing reading and memorable for the evolution of love that gradually but potently emerges! Very nicely done, Ms. Thomas!"
Crystal Book Reviews
“The Promise of Forgiveness, Marin Thomas's debut novel blends many colorful characters with differing temperaments in addition to heartfelt emotions centering through years of pain and disillusionment on the way to finding a path to absolution.”
Reader to Reader
“There’s a big promise in this book: love, redemption, and a story so gripping I couldn’t put it down.”
~Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times author of Silver Linings
A novel of love, forgiveness, and the unbreakable bonds of family from award-nominated author Marin Thomas...
When it comes to family, Ruby Baxter hasn’t had much luck. The important men in her early life abandoned her, and any time a decent boyfriend came along, she ran away. But now Ruby is thirty-one and convinced she is failing her teenage daughter. Mia is the one good thing in her life, and Ruby hopes a move to Kansas will fix what’s broken between them.
But the road to redemption takes a detour. Hank McArthur, the biological father Ruby never knew existed, would like her to claim her inheritance: a dusty oil ranch just outside of Unforgiven, Oklahoma.
As far as first impressions go, the gruff, emotionally distant rancher isn’t what Ruby has hoped for in a father. Yet Hank seems to have a gift for rehabilitating abused horses—and for reaching Mia. And if Ruby wants to entertain the possibility of a relationship with Joe Dawson, the ranch foreman, she must find a way to open her heart to the very first man who left her behind.
