A Fool for Lilies

Bonnie and Jack met as children in the summer of 1952 when she was sent to the countryside to stay with an Aunt she had never met. Being from the city and a financially comfortable background, the first summer she spent with Aunt Claire gardening, baking, and chasing chickens taught Bonnie so much about herself that she didn't know before.Bonnie will never forget when she first met Jackson Lewis Baker, the confidently forward and unmistakably cute boy next door. When Jack checks on her after a fly ball comes barreling her way, Bonnie starts to feel things for Jack that she can't yet explain.Bonnie and Jack's love story expands across a decade until we meet them in the present of 1962, where they are faced with uncomfortable truths about their marriage and how they each forgot how to be the versions of themselves that they first fell in love with all those years ago.A Fool for Lilies is a Christian romance set against the nostalgic backdrop of the 1950s and 1960s. It demonstrates human frailty while exploring faith, feeling, and forgiveness.Can they get back to who they once were? When did they lose themselves? How far can love cover sin?