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New Novel by Teresa Slack - `A Tender Reed`

`A Tender Reed` is a story of love, happiness and forgiveness. Teresa Slack, the author, will surely have readers laughing and crying as they read this story of love and reconciliation, and get involved in the characters` lives themselves. Teresa Slack writes from her Latham, Ohio home which she shares with her husband and teenage son. She is also the author of Streams of Mercy, and several short stories, mainly suspense. Her devotions have appeared in the Upper Room magazine. This is her second novel.

Abandoned by her parents and raised by a grandmother who viewed her presence as punishment for some sin she had unknowingly committed, Michelle Hurley has learned to depend on no one but herself. Twenty years later, Michelle lives alone on the family farm. Her personal life is nonexistent. Romance and family never cross her mind. She drives a sports car, talks to her dog as though it can understand every word she says, and makes the maximum contributions to her retirement plan. She is perfectly happy in the niche she`s carved out for herself.

Michelle`s self-contained world is turned upside down the morning she finds her sister`s two small children under her lilac bushes without even shoes on their feet. How could this have happened to her? She never bothered anyone. All she wants is to be left alone.