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The Road before Us
The Road before Us: A Novel | Janine Rosche
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How far would you go to fix the mistakes you've made and regain the trust you lost? For Jade Jessup, the answer is 2,448 miles. Once one of Chicago's significant financial advisors, Jade lost her credibility when her fiancé (and coworker) stole millions of dollars from their clients in a Ponzi scheme. Now she's agreed to help one of them--an aging 1960s Hollywood starlet named Berenice "Benny" Alderidge--seek financial restoration. Jade sets off along Route 66 with Benny and her handsome adult foster son, Bridger, who is filming a documentary retracing the 1956 trip that started the love story between Benny and her recently deceased husband, Paul. Listening to Benny recount her story draws Jade into memories of her own darker association with Route 66, when she was kidnapped as a child by a man the media labeled a monster--but she remembers only as daddy. Together, all three of these pilgrims will learn about family, forgiveness, and what it means to live free of the past. But not before Jade faces a second staggering betrayal that changes everything.
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I‘ve never felt any desire to travel the old Route 66 but traveling along with Jade, Bridger and Bernie in this beautifully written book made it sound like a worthwhile journey. The author packs in so much interesting and descriptive detail about the road and the towns along the way. I was sorry to part company with the characters at the end. Bridger and Jade were about to embark on a new journey and I desperately wanted to accompany them.