The Mother Road

For readers of Christian women's fiction, The Mother Road opens with Natalie Marino caught in an awkward irony: she has built a career telling women how to stay happily married, and her own marriage has just fallen apart. In the space of a single week, she is left by her husband, called home by her father, and blindsided by the news that her estranged sister, Lindsay, is pregnant.

With her life unraveling, Natalie sets out on a Route 66 road trip with the sister she barely knows. The drive might bring the two of them closer, or it might prove the worst wrong turn yet, especially once Lindsay's boyfriend begins following them. The Mother Road is a story about sisters, about the identity a woman must rebuild after divorce, and about the messy, real relationships that carry us when the life we planned gives way.

Jennifer Allee is a bestselling author of Christian women's fiction. The Mother Road is written for readers and book groups drawn to honest stories of family, second chances, and finding your way home.