Renewal: Kayla's Story

Hope & Healing #2

by Vicki Hunt Budge

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, While loving someone deeply gives you courage. --Lao Tzu Kayla Morrison, an LDS young single adult, grew up in an unloving, verbally abusive home. It’s no wonder she’s skeptical when charming, successful Chris Christensen brings up love on their first date. Making things worse, her former fiancé shows up later and claims Chris doesn’t love her. Meanwhile Kayla’s father drops the bomb that he’s not her real father. And then he dies, setting Kayla on an arduous quest to discover who she really is, and if she’s worthy of anyone’s love. Along the way she establishes new friendships and treasures current friends. But will the drama of her friends and family strengthen her, or will it cause her to withdraw back to her destructive beginnings? Renewal is the continuing story of love and friendship in the Hope and Healing Series. It is a story of redemption and faith in the Savior, Jesus Christ.

275 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 6, 2015

About the author

Vicki Hunt Budge makes her full-length fiction debut with Intercession. She grew up in southern Idaho with a mother who read to her and a father who taught her to golf and swim. Vicki attended Idaho State University and the University of Utah. She began writing for the Friend magazine when her children were young and she’s published many stories and articles for LDS church magazines since that time. She and her husband raised four children in Central Oregon, but now reside in Utah. In addition to her children and grandchildren, Vicki enjoys reading, hiking, cooking and serving with her husband as a missionary in the LDS Addiction Recovery Program. Vicki would love to hear from readers and can be contacted through: www.facebook.com/VickiHuntBudgeAuthor vicki@vickihuntbudge.com

Reviews

[Teri Stich · Rating 4 out of 5]

Worthwhile read

I didn't realize this was a Christian Genre when I started it. As part of a readathon I was to read a book on renewal/transformation. The little blurb I read made it seem this would fit the bill. I was right in many ways. It is about self realization, acceptance, and personal transformation. Yes, it is very Christian theme but one can look beyond that and take the message if not Christian. Well written though a bit pat in some ways. Glad I read it. I took a lot away from it.

[Traci Sessions · Rating 5 out of 5]

The amount did an excellent job with this book.

I loved this book! I liked it even more than the first one in the series. One reason for that though may be because I was already familiar with the characters. This book is about Kayla and her reconciling with her past. I love how the author reminds the readers throughout the book that it doesn't matter what happened in your past, God still loves you. This book also reminds the reader not to give hope in loved ones and anyone can change for the better.

[Louise Pledge · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love Vicki Hunt Budge's books. They are so much more than stories. Christian, they remind us of our Heavenly Father's presence in our life. This one was pretty emotional, and my heart bled for the main character, but, at the same time, the story was uplifting.