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Beyond This Moment
Book 2 in the Timber Ridge Reflections series.
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Dr Molly Whitcomb leaves an academic career and arrives in Timber Ridge to teach, carrying a private decision that has cost her position and threatens her standing in the new community. Sheriff James McPherson quickly recognises that her carefully constructed story is incomplete. When her past becomes public, his association with her places his authority and reputation at risk as well.
The novel examines the unequal consequences attached to women’s sexuality, professional ambition and public respectability in the nineteenth century. Molly’s reinvention cannot succeed through secrecy alone, and James must distinguish justice from social punishment. Their romance develops through confession, accountability and a Christian understanding of worth that exceeds reputation.