I Choose to Believe: A Novel

Love blossoms between a young Jewish doctor named Ben and Danae', a Christian student nurse when they meet under colliding circumstances. When Ben takes the woman he has fallen in love with to meet his family, they are not only faced with Danae's deepest fears, but it brings to a head a lifelong underlying friction between Ben and his father, Daniel. Ben is now faced with difficult choices between His love for Danae' and the extent of what he is willing to do in order to help heal deep hurts. His encounter with truth as he seeks to seal his relationship with Danae' in marriage leads him into unexpected and mysterious paths. Dana' must now put into practice that which is commanded of every believer-the command to forgive. Her strong Christian values and trust in God enable her to lovingly confront Ben with the possibility that there is a hidden pain that his father could be carrying that has caused his inability to respond to and express love to his sons. Although faced with the reality that marriage to Ben might not be in God's sovereign plan, because they are unequally yoked, she continues in the relationship and is encouraged by the warmth extended by Ben's mother Miriam.Reid, Carol A. is the author of 'I Choose to Believe: A Novel', published 2002 under ISBN 9780971802308 and ISBN 0971802300.