The Search

About the Book

After her friend Abby’s spectacularly romantic wedding in Illinois, Victoria Berhenke returns to her home town in Arkansas to visit her mother and brothers, but she has an ulterior motive. She is determined to find her father, who disappeared after the death of her twin baby brothers, leaving her mother devastated and alone to raise her and her four brothers. Victoria’s guilt over leaving her mother alone to raise the family has haunted her for ten years and until she exhausts all means to find her father and reunite the family, she feels she will never be able to find a love of her own. Not just a love, but the love of her life. Meeting Abby’s new husband’s handsome brother, Raymond, has awakened her desire for love and family. Could Raymond be the one? However, back in Arkansas her childhood buddy reappears on the scene. Now, a handsome and successful Pastor, Jeremy makes himself available to help her in her search for her father, and is very, very attentive, making her more confused than ever. Perhaps one of these men will be her forever love. Which one? Or, is there someone else on her horizon? She won’t know until she finds her father. If she’s not too late.

About the Author

Joyce Murphy Arendt grew up in rural Illinois, a farm girl with a heart for telling stories, and an un-quenchable imagination just waiting to be released. Raising a family of six kids and working in the death care industry took most of her time until later in life. After her family was grown she moved close to her parents to care for them in their later years, eventually moving in with them as full time caregiver. She found solace in the early morning hours by turning to her first love… writing. Victoria’s story is the second in the ‘Abigail Sommers Series’, with likely one more story to complete the set. From personal experience, Joyce can relate to Victoria’s life on the family farm. Of course, the people and her home town are entirely fictional, and live only in Joyce’s mind. She laughs and cries with every character as her stories attempt to fill your imagination and bless your soul. She draws her strength from her chosen Bible Verse, 1 Corinthians 15:58 King James Version “Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor in not in vain in the Lord.”