Ruth

Six years ago, Ruth Kirkpatrick's life was changed when Jimmy Grace, the quintessential bad boy, kissed her behind a Galveston Beach concession stand -- right in the middle of a church youth group outing.

Unprepared for her very physical reaction to the kiss, this minister's daughter suppressed her feelings immediately – and good thing, too, for he abruptly left town the following week under mysterious circumstances. And though she was sure she could put him out of her thoughts, he still annoyingly crossed her mind from time to time over the years...

But when he returns to the Heights in 1956 -- in the last role she would have suspected -- Ruth discovers he's upending not just her heart, but her ideas about herself, the nature of forgiveness, and the world around her.