Quiet Grace

Moving his family from Tennessee to Mobile, Russell Carson begins his studies toward a medical degree at the University of South Alabama. Dreams of becoming a physician, he works diligently to fulfill his goal. While attending premed classes he meets and becomes friends with Jessica Krammer who also has the same aspirations. Things go well until his wife falls in love with her boss and divorces him. During his hard times, Russell meets a Kim, a Chinese immigrant, who is struggling to pay off her debt of being brought to the states. They become fast friends and eventually fall in love with plans of marriage. As the college courses become more demanding, Russell's best friend and study partner, Jessica, has a mental breakdown and has to withdraw from school. Soldiering on, Russell comes to the end of his premed requirements and is accepted into medical school at the University of Alabama. His life is thrown into chaos when his ex-wife and son, along with her husband, are found murdered. Russell is charged with the crime and jailed. While awaiting for trial he is beaten into a coma by irate inmates in the jail.Two years pass before Russell regains consciousness. He is in a nursing home in Tennessee. He begins the process of rehabilitation. Much to his dismay Kim has disappeared. Jessica is straddled with mental problems and her marriage is in shambles. Separated from her husband, she visits Russell is Shannon and the two fall for each other. Though she loves him, Jessica encourages him to keep looking for Kim. She even talks him into going to China to see if Kim had gone back home. Russell travels to China to find Kim and thinks he sees her with her husband and child. He goes back home brokenhearted, not knowing that he had seen Kim's sister instead. Back home he had hoped to win Jessica, but she had reconnected with her husband. Building a life as an entrepreneur, Russell becomes a major businessman in his home town. He gets a call one day from Jessica's husband that she has had a stroke and is paralyzed. Russell visits her regularly in a nursing home in South Alabama. Jessica's husband divorces her and takes her son from her life. Russell does his best to be there for her in any way he can. On one visit Jessica, her speech severely affected, communicates to Russell that she saw Kim and that she works in another part of the facility. She convinces him to look for her and sure enough, it really is Kim. The two are reunited at last and he takes her home to Shannon to be his wife. Because of his love and devotion for Jessica, Russell has her moved to Shannon so he and Kim can care for her. With the most important women in his life, Russell finds peace and happiness in spite of the bittersweet road he has traveled.

• | Author: John EVANS
• | Publisher: Independently Published
• | Publication Date: Dec 12, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 436 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1791563988
• | ISBN-13: 9781791563981