With Love, Libby (Coming Home to Brewster Series) by Roxanne Henke

With Love, Libby is the fifth and final book in the Coming Home to Brewster Series. Roxanne Henke isn't just an author, she's a teacher. Each book in this series has a specific life lesson that we can all learn from.

The first book After Anne is about friendships of women and breast cancer. Finding Ruth is about finding contentment. Becoming Olivia deals with clinical depression. Always Jan teaches us about aging. The final book With Love, Libby is about purpose. I recommend that you read these books in order, each books builds on the one before.

With Love, Libby centers around the lives of three women. Olivia Marsden (Libby), Vicky Johnson and her daughter Angie. Libby and Vicky are struggling with many of the same issues in this book. Libby is a little older than Vicky. Libby's children are in college, Vicky's are in high school getting ready to go to college. Both have dreams for their children that don't always come true. Both are at a point where their day to day lives are pretty routine and boring.

Libby is a struggling author trying to get her first novel (After Anne) published. Her son brings home a girl who doesn't fit into Libby's mold of the perfect girl for her son. At the same time her daughter won't give the time of day to a boy who (in her mother's opinion) is the perfect match for her. Libby has to learn that God's timing and plans are often different and always better than hers.

Vicky has always lived in Brewster, got married at a young age and bought a small cafe there. She has big plans for her daughter to go to college and do all the things that she never had the opportunity to do. Her daughter Angie has plans of her own. Plans which shatter her mother's dreams, heart and their relationship.

Jeremiah 29:11 sums up this book and possibly the whole series. "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." This final book touches on the major events during the 10+ years time span of the Coming Home to Brewster series and shows how each event whether joyous or heartbreaking fits perfectly into God's plan for the characters in this series.

With Love, Libby, Coming Home to Brewster Series #5 By Roxanne Henke / Harvest House Publishers