Charlotte Leaves the Light on »

ANNETTE SMITH is a writer, speaker, and registered nurse. She is the author of seven books, including short-story collections. Annette and her husband, Randy, have raised two children and served as foster parents. They reside in Texas.

The third and final book in the Ruby Prairie series about a small town in Texas and the quirky characters who live there as seen through the eyes of Charlotte, a widow in her mid-thirties who has come to the town to open her home and be a foster mother for girls. Charlotte is faced with decisions regarding her future in Ruby Prairie as the girls she has been caring for at Tanglewood begin to lead lives on their own, and the pastor she has long admired begins to return her love. And when an infant is abandoned at Lighted Way Church, Charlotte must once again face the truth that love breaks your heart, but love is the only way to live.