The Virtuous Woman

by Gilbert Morris Book 34 in the House of Winslow series.

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Phil and Cara Winslow discover that the daughter they believed had died in infancy is still alive. Their search leads them to Grace, now twenty years old and shaped by a life very different from the privileged household into which they want to bring her.

The Winslows’ grown children react with embarrassment and hostility, making Grace’s return to the family far more difficult than Phil and Cara expected. Only Kevin, a scarred and withdrawn member of the household, reaches out to her without demanding that she immediately conform. When Grace runs away and later ends up in prison, Kevin is forced to leave his own self-imposed isolation to find her. The novel centres on whether a family can accept a daughter whose experiences challenge its ideas of respectability, faith and belonging.