Waiting for Daybreak

Title: WAITING FOR DAYBREAK
Author: Kathryn Cushman
Publisher: Bethany House Books
2008
ISBN: 978-0-7642-0381-7
Genre: Inspirational/women’s fiction

Paige Woodward has paid for a mistake made in a pharmacy for years. When a dream opportunity opens up at a new pharmacy, Paige keeps quiet about her past to ensure she’ll land the job. She desperately needs the bonus money and pay to help her parents pay for the cancer treatments that might save her mother’s life.

Clarissa Richardson is angry at her grandfather for forcing her to work at a pharmacy miles from her friends and her social life. But she puts in the time, praying that her grandfather will fund her dream business in the building he’s just bought in Nashville.

Sparks fly when Clarissa’s grandfather introduces Paige to Clarissa as the new pharmacist he’s hired. Someone guaranteed to teach her how to show compassion to others who come in. But Clarissa doesn’t want Paige there. So she plots to get rid of her. What ever it takes…

I thoroughly enjoyed WAITING FOR DAYBREAK, and consider it my favorite of Ms. Cushman’s two books. Paige is a totally realistic heroine, struggling for issues that are dear to a lot of us, and just wanting to make it on her own. Clarissa is a bit harder to relate to as she was a spoiled rich girl wanting her life dreams handed to her on a silver-platter. She was putting in the time, and going through the motions, but was very angry about it.

I enjoyed getting to know all the secondary characters as well, especially the elderly Ora who came into the pharmacy. She was a doll. Ms. Cushman is an extremely talented author who makes the story come alive and the characters real. I am looking forward to any subsequent books by this author. Don’t miss WAITING FOR DAYBREAK. It is a wonderful story. $13.99. 315 pages.