Beyond the Gathering Storm

Name: Beyond the Gathering Storm
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Janette Oke
ISBN: 9781440798443

Author: Janette Oke

Series: Delaney Family #1

Narrator: Barbara Caruso

Unabridged: 7 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/15/2008

Categories: Fiction, Christian Fiction, Historical Fiction, Religious

Synopsis

Best-selling author Janette Oke, noted for vivid historical settings and heartwarming spiritual drama spins the tale of a close-knit family facing separation and change. Years ago, Wynn and Elizabeth Delaney adopted Christine and Henry. Now Christine has moved to a nearby city. Working as a secretary in a prosperous company, she is drawn to her employer's handsome son. Henry has joined the Canadian Mounties, where one of his first duties is to help a young widow and her infant. In their new lives, as new relationships grow, can Christine and Henry still draw on the faith they have learned from their parents?

About Janette Oke

Janette Oke pioneered inspirational fiction and is the leading author in the category today. She has written over forty books, thirty two of which have been translated into fourteen languages. She received the 1992 President's Award from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association for her significant contribution to Christian fiction, and she has been awarded the coveted Gold Medallion Award for Fiction. She and her family make their home in Canada.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Shirley on May 18, 2022

I will admit that at first I was a bit disappointed in this book. It is book five of Janette Oke’s Canadian West series. I was looking forward to reading more about Elizabeth and Wynn Delaneys life in Northern Alberta. Instead the book started out with Henry And Christine Delaney and I didn’t recogn......more

Goodreads review by Celestria on May 03, 2023

4 ½ stars 🌟 Really enjoyed this one a lot! This book is set many years after the last book and it's about Wynn and Elizabeth's two kids who are all grown up and making lives for themselves elsewhere, Chrissy in the city and Henry as a mountie. I feel like this was mostly focused on Chrissy and I didn......more

Goodreads review by Melissa on January 26, 2011

I was much surprised at this book. I had expected, at the end of the last book in the Canadian West series, that this book would pick up where it left off. Instead it seems to be about 20 or so years in the future and primarily about the Delaney's two adopted children, Henry and Christine. We find th......more

Goodreads review by Kaitlyn on October 07, 2024

It would be 5 stars...but tbh Christine's POV drove me a lil nuts😅......more

Goodreads review by Abby on December 16, 2022

Well... Based on all my crying about Christine's poor choices concerning Boyd, you might think I didn't like this story. But that's not true. I did enjoy it, once I got used to the new-narrator-that-was-not-Nancy-Petersen. I could even *almost* like Boyd. Almost. Not quite. Mild Spoilers: (view spoiler)[Now, Christ (hide spoiler)]......more