Margaret’s Story

Coming Home to Mercy is a delightful start to author De Bruin’s continuation of the Millerson family. This time it is Margaret, Karen’s, mom who gets to find love and hope of a new beginning.

Karen and Logan have just had their twins and they are overwhelmed with their care and just life in general. Margaret travels to their home to stay for a short time to help her daughter and son-in-law always expecting to go back to her life in Chicago. However, things begin to change and one of them is the distinguished Dr. Matthew Kaldenberg.

Both Margaret and Matthew have had sorrow in their first marriages and have moved on. Matthew became a doctor to help others escape the sorrow he endured as much as he could. And Margaret moved on to a much more independent life where she made her own decisions and could be a part of society as much as she wanted. Also living in her brother’s mansion gave her more freedom to live as a society lady should. But was she truly free and living the life she wanted?

That is why Matthew is so appealing to her and she to Matthew. But are they both just to settled in their lives to change? They are also living in a time when the world has one foot in the past and one in the future. While the horse and buggy is still dependable transport, cars and now even bi-planes are becoming much more common.

I completely understood Margaret’s dilemma. As you get older sometimes you don’t always see the opportunities that are still abounding around you. You become settled and just choose the comfortable and familiar over the new and different. And as Margaret finds out, a little bit dangerous too.

I enjoyed seeing Margaret get her own story amidst the changes that was going on in 1913 and showing sometimes change is good for the soul.