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Small-Town Dreams/The Girl Next Door (Love Inspired Classics)

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The author was really brave on writing about such a controversial issue! I'm not sure what the answer is, but I liked Kate Welsh's solution...

It doesn't take long for us to discover that Joshua Daniels has amnesia. The doctors have told him he'd never regain his memory, but he has a picture of a woman, and a ring torn from his left ring finger that indicate he was married. That keeps him from feeling free to marry...

...and then along came Cassidy...

So, what is the answer? If he'll never regain his memory of the past, are his vows still legal? If who he was before is now dead, must he live his whole life staying faithful to someone who may very well be dead himself? Also, the question of adultery comes up. Is he free to marry if his wife did indeed commit adultery? My answer to the adultery is "yes" because it clearly says so in the Bible...but different people view this differently...it's a personal convection...

Though we do get some answers, I feel this one very big answer that is left resolved - it's doubtful this will ever be solved: What happened in PA that cause his injuries/memory loss? This is never revealed...

'Joshua Daniels was a man without a past. But with a Higher Power to sustain him, he'd found contentment in the present. Then Cassidy Jamison, bright, beautiful and beset by a deep-buried sorrow, entered his life, making him yearn for a future he fared was impossible.
Her life had been filled with money, megadeals-and emptiness. But now Cassidy Jamison had landed in Mountain View, Pennsylvania, a tiny town where people knew what truly mattered, and Joshua Daniels, an unconventional preacher with sweet mischief in his eyes, was helping her to find her faith, her self-and home for her heart...!'