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    Unexpected Wedding

    By Carla Rossi

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    Rocky Lionakis has been a wheelchair user since a fall in college. He plays bass guitar in Cornerstone Fellowship's worship band and shares his testimony every week with the campers at Towering Pines summer church camp. At peace with his chair, he has settled into a boring but successful career in technology... but then stunning camp counselor, Gia Rinaldi, enters his life and turns it upside down. Lifelong preacher's kid and occasional wild child, Giavanna Rinaldi, has always learned things the hard way. With a trail of bad choices in her wake, she has finally grown up and found her niche as a student of Christian child psychology. She returns to Camp Towering Pines where she's worked since high school, but unsettling dreams and an unexplained illness lead her to a harrowing discovery. Will Rocky and Gia's budding romance survive her trauma? And is their bold decision an answer from God, or a serious step outside of His perfect will?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPelican Book Group
    Release dateApr 4, 2014
    ISBN9781611163926
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      Baggage threatens to cripple all.Gia and Rocky meet at camp. It's instant attraction, but both parties bring their share of baggage. Rocky is afraid to let people do too much for him, and is fiercely independent. He needs to prove he can still do for himself, even though he is in a wheelchair. Gia is classically beautiful, but with a background of a pastors'(plural) kid's family and a mega church at that, hurts piled up and resentment is deep. Circumstances and desire conspire to cause Gia and Rocky to wed, but will they be able to withstand the pressures that their different backgrounds, needs, and hurts require? Can they look to God for their own personal healing so they can impart healing for each other, or will they tear each other apart in their efforts for self-survival and healing? Secondary characters are a surprising hoot and add quite the touch of humor to a book somewhat fraught with friction and anxiety of unsettled relationships.I received this book from bookfun.org in exchange for an honest review.