In Search of Dignity

by Rebecca Duvall Scott

I had been trying to fit into life after war - often making a pretty good mess of things - and was rejected at every attempt. What did Clara expect from me? Could we find a way to rekindle the love we once felt? I wondered. The questions swirled in my head until sun up, but the answers still evaded me. Of all the things I didn't know, however, one truth rang I can't go on living like this. *** This is the last night I'll sleep alone, I thought. Tomorrow, I'll be married... to a girl a third my age. It was certainly unusual, but unusual doesn't have to be wrong. Unusual can be beautiful. This is love; an amazing, deep, miraculous love maybe only we ourselves would ever fully understand the power of. *** As if someone took blinders off an old horse, my eyes were fully opened to God's Truth. It had been simple enough for a child to understand all along... God moved everything around in my whole life to bring me to this very time and place. Risking life and limb in the first World War, veteran Daniel Johnston returns home to realize he has lost everything precious. With his wife in love with another man and him feeling like a ghost among his children, he is leaving them and setting on a personal quest to fill the void of longing and despair. The only adventure he never considered, however, was falling in love with a woman a third his age as he passed through Harlan County, Kentucky on his way to the Gulf. Little did he know, the angel of the post office, one Anna Beth Atwood with a mysterious story of her own, would not only renew the joy of his natural life but also lead him to the one whose spiritual peace mends every broken soul. Based on true family history and written by the award-winning author of When Dignity Came to Harlan and Teaching Dignity, In Search of Dignity is a heartfelt story of heartbreak and hope, forgiveness and love, second chances and merciful redemption. Join Daniel and Anna Beth and see for yourself how age is no match for love - or God.

176 pages, Hardcover

Published June 21, 2022

About the author

Rebecca Duvall Scott is an award-winning author with titles holding #1 bestseller within her publishing companies long after release. Her first work was self-help memoir, Sensational Kids, Sensational Families: Hope for Sensory Processing Differences, which she wrote in the years following her son’s sensory processing disorder diagnosis and their family’s successful treatment plan. While her special-needs advocacy helping parents, teachers, and professionals better understand individuals with SPD has a large part of her heart, her roots have always been in historical fiction. Her long-awaited Christian historical fiction novel, When Dignity Came to Harlan, was based on her great-grandmother’s childhood, and Teaching Dignity continues the tender and heroic story. She looks forward to writing more in both the Dignity and Sensational Kids series.

Rebecca lives with her husband, Eric, and their two children, Annabelle and Jacob, in Louisville, Kentucky. In addition to writing, Rebecca enjoys family, church, educating her children at home, painting, and directing a local homeschool cooperative organization where she works hard to accommodate all special needs.

Reviews

[Carolyn Bryant · Rating 5 out of 5]

In Search of Dignity is the third touching installment in the Dignity series based on the author’s true family history. Broken by the Great War, Daniel Johnston leaves his family and drifts from place to place for ten years searching for a place to belong and a purpose for his life. Then, he meets Anna Beth Atwood who sets his life on a completely different course. Their beautiful, heartwarming love story is remarkable despite a fifty year difference in their ages. This book with themes of friendship, family, forgiveness, and faith touched my heart and stirred my soul. I appreciated the strong faith thread weaving in truths of redemption and salvation. This amazing combination of truth and fiction is a story I shall not soon forget. I am hoping for more books in the series. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and highly recommend it and the series. Note: Even though there are recurring characters, each book in the series can be easily read as a standalone.

[Phyllis Rundell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow!!! What a marvelous story based on the author's family history and a story of forgiveness, family, faith, friends and romance and is Book #3 in the Dignity series. This is Daniel Johnston and Anna Beth Atwood's story. Daniel is a veteran of the Great War and is wandering in despair and conflicted as to what his future held. His wandering eventually led him to Harlan County, KY where he met Anna Beth Atwood, who seemed to be an angel. and who eventually led him back to God. In the process, even though he was 50 years older, Daniel fell in love with Anna Beth. Will this age difference prevent them from having their own HEA? Be sure and read this real page turner to find out; I know you will enjoy it as much as I did.

[Kimberly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ms. Scott adapted some of her family's history, using some true and some fiction, to tell the story of her family. I accidentally read the trilogy out of order, but it didn't cause any issues in following the story, with the textual background provided.