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  • Published: 6 April 2021
  • ISBN: 9781984804211
  • Imprint: Berkley
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $39.99

Drenched in Light




A woman struggling to find her way forward discovers hope in her bond with a troubled young girl in this heartfelt novel in the Tending Roses series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Friends and Before We Were Yours.

Once a gifted ballet dancer, Julia Costell understands the joy of body and soul lost in a perfect moment. But after buckling under the demands of a professional dance career, she’s landed with a thud in an unglamorous job as a guidance counselor at a performing arts school. Living back home with her parents and feeling lost, Julia is afraid she’ll never soar again—until the day young Dell Jordan is sent to her office.

In Dell’s writing, Julia recognizes not only her own despair, but also luminous sparks of hope. But as Julia fights to forge a brighter future for one disadvantaged student, she is drawn into startling undercurrents of conflict and denial within the academy. Now, as she is tested in ways she never imagined, Julia begins to discover that even though her life has seemed off course, she’s been on the right path all along...

  • Published: 6 April 2021
  • ISBN: 9781984804211
  • Imprint: Berkley
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $39.99

About the author

Lisa Wingate

Lisa Wingate is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Before We Were Yours, which has sold more than three million copies and been translated into over forty languages worldwide. The co-author, with Judy Christie, of the nonfiction book Before and After, Wingate is a Goodreads Choice Award winner, an Oklahoma Book Award finalist, and a Southern Book Prize winner. She was named a 2023 Distinguished Alumni of Oklahoma State University. She lives with her husband in Texas and Colorado.

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Praise for Drenched in Light

Praise for Drenched in Light

"Heartfelt and moving, enriched by characters drawn with compassion and warmth."--New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini

"Another winner."--Booklist

More Praise for Lisa Wingate's Novels

"A master storyteller."--Parade

"A story beautifully told, with richly drawn characters that will...make you want to laugh and cry."--Karen White

"A remarkably talented and innovative writer with a real feel for human emotions."--Linda Lael Miller

"Wingate's novels, like those of Nicholas Sparks and Richard Paul Evans and others, take a middle ground between Christian and mainstream fiction--uplifting, clean and inspiration but not overtly religious."--Bryan-College Station Eagle