Overruled

A sequel to "Making Fate," this vintage Christian novel gathers the tangled lives of Marjorie Edmonds and those around her: Mr. Maxwell, her mother's boarder; Ralph and Estelle Bramlett, whose marriage strains under his reckless impulsiveness and her sharp selfishness; and Hannah Bramlett, who quietly fights to pull a young man back from the brink of drunkenness. Each character approaches life with their own plans, their own desires, their own stubborn will. Each one is about to discover that the best-laid schemes run afoul of something far greater than themselves. With tender unsentimentality, Pansy portrays ordinary people wrestling with ordinary sins and finding that they are, after all, overruled by a love that will not let them go. The prose carries the quiet conviction that grace works not by overriding human choice, but by working through it. For readers who appreciate vintage devotional fiction, stories of divine providence, or novels where imperfection meets mercy.