The Truth About Love and Lightning / Susan McBride / 300 pages

This is a mesmerizing story of difficult family relationships, love, prejudice, greed, selflessness, and the determination to keep moving forward with hope despite seemingly insurmountable obstacles...Very inspiring!  Gretchen Brink's life has not been easy.  Her mother was difficult.  The whole town said so.  She wanted to put her blind babies in an institution but Gretchen and her father promised to care for them.  Her fathers abandoned the family for the school librarian and her mother disowned her when she had a teenage pregnancy.  The family of the boy she claimed to be the father took her in and when they left her their farm, her mother dropped off her twin sisters so she could care for them along with her daughter.  The book alternates between Gretchen's story and that of Sam Winston and his family.  His grandfather and great-grandfather could control rain and lightning.  Sam returns to the farm during a tornado and turns Gretchen's life and Abigail's world right side up!