Raising Cain ... and His Sisters

Halo Hattie's Boarding House #2

by Suzy Pizzuti

You’ve heard it said, “Be careful what you pray for.” But it may also be a good idea to be careful who you ask to pray. Because when folks like Hattie Hopkins talk to God…anything can happen! Stuck in the semi-reclusive life she’s built for herself, Olivia Harmon is still recovering from the tragic loss of her husband and daughter five years before. Though she loves her job at Vermont’s department of tourism, she longs for something more–so she asks her landlady Hattie to pray for a little volunteer work for her to do.

Things don’t work out exactly as she had planned, however, and soon Olivia finds herself bursting out of her carefully built cocoon to undertake the nurturing of three rambunctious street children. Even her heart seems out of control, causing her to fall for Zach Springer, the handsome handyman who rode a mudslide right into her sun room. Can a woman so accustomed to self-imposed solitude adjust to a new life, a new love, and the new challenge of Raising Cain…and His Sisters?

Genres: Christian

256 pages, Paperback

First published June 15, 1999

Reviews

[Coral · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another romantic comedy involving Hattie's boarding house. Hattie is an old hard-of-hearing boarding house owner who has a great relationship with God. Those around her often ask her to pray for specific things for them. But she hears them incorrectly and prays for the wrong stuff. It all works out in the end. Although these are predictable, you want it to happen that way and have a lot of smiles getting to the end.