Should have been listed as "Christian Literary fiction" rather than just literary fiction. An almost too cute aw shucks ma'am, gee golly can I buy ya a pop we'll save each other romance novel that just doesn't come close to the reality that is the open raw wound of PTSD of returning soldiers. But sure, we're seeing dead husbands in the corners of bedrooms giving us the blessing to move on with our new boyfriends, and portents of doves and .... ugh. This book is drowning in god talk, and dripping with saccharine. If you can get past that, the overall story of it really isn't that bad, a couple of cute young couples in the 1940s find healing in a boarding house in the south, they save each other, they save the older couple that own the home, and there's a pretty interesting mystery from the 1800s about a N'awlins river pirate and his lady love tied up in mysterious journals that they discover is tied to the original owners of the house. This book isn't my genre and I won't dip into it again, but for a free book in exchange for an honest review it was worth one read.