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At twenty-one, Abby Callahan leaves her parent’s home for a rented motel room in Redford’s Crossing. She has no friends, let alone a boyfriend, so why did she tell her controlling sister she’s bringing a date to a family party? With only one week and no prospects, she needs a miracle.
Rory St. George needs a cashier for the store he manages, and Abby is the perfect choice. When he invites her out, hoping to propose a job offer, she agrees to go---if he will accompany her to a family party. Rory’s plans don’t include a relationship, but he’s drawn to Abby in a way he didn’t anticipate.
A series of misfortunes threaten to end their relationship before it begins. With the odds stacked against them, can their newfound love survive? She’s new in town. He’s from the wrong side of town.
When disaster strikes, can love turn ordinary people into Superheroes?
Abby desperately wants to make her own way in the world, away from her meddlesome parents and judgemental sister. This desire for independence leads her to take up residence in a seedy hotel-turned apartment complex while making ends meet with work at a local convenience store. At the store, Abby meets the dashing Rory St. George, a man who shares her faith in God. But Superheroes is not a simple story with an easy happily-ever-after. M. Jean Pike takes Abby and Rory through a rollercoaster of obstacles, demonstrating that difficulty forges character, faith, and love.
I just completed the journey through the pages with Rory and Abby and it did not disappoint. Abby is trying to make a way for herself after escaping an emotionally abusive boyfriend. She truly wants to give life a go based on her own merits. As the youngest in her family, her well-meaning parents have tried to direct her too long. The room she can afford is in a sketchy neighborhood, but she’s bound and determined to make it enough as she works part-time and goes to school. She dreams of being a music therapist—touching the hurting with the sounds of her guitar. The problem at the outset is her lack of a plus one for her parents’ anniversary shindig. Embarrassed at the possibility of being ridiculed again, she prays a desperate prayer. She asks God to intervene and provide her a date and make it clear who that should be. Rory, meanwhile, has already been trying to think of a way to approach Abby. Not only does he find her attractive, he likes her work ethic and the feed store he manage
Abby hopes for independence from her overbearing parents. But with their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary coming up, Abby intends to show up with a date. So, she prays for one and gets Rory, a handsome feed store manager, who thinks she seems like the reliable worker he could use. He agrees to go to the anniversary dinner with her but that turns out to be a disaster. Abby’s grandmother knows of Rory’s drunken father and Rory learns that Abby lost her driver’s license. That would have been the end of their friendship but one day Abby walks into Rory’s church to audition as a singer. Rory is impressed and his misgiving about her vanish. Abby gets a job at the feed store and their friendship blossoms but there is one rule they cannot break despite their growing feelings. Still, a far worse stumbling block threatens and it will take all of Abby’s prayers and resolve to overcome. This is story with a heaping dose of heart!
