title: Redeeming Our Treasures Companion Workbook: Finding Joy in the Shadows of an Abusive Past
author: Linda Settles
description: Linda Settles is an author, a wife and mother, and a counselor. She is also a survivor of sexual abuse. </br> </br> Linda has written this book in order to reach out to others who have been victimized in the past and help them face the future with the determination of a survivor, the courage of an activist on behalf of others who may suffer still, and the hope of a wounded warrior who will not be satisfied to live any longer with the limitations imposed on her by the pain of her past.</br> </br> Linda lives in the moutains of Virginia with her husband and two daughters. She is active in her church and in recovery ministries. She is a writer and a speaker at women's conferences, to recovery groups, and in abuse recovery workshops.
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  # Renewed Love
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Linda Ford
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 1](part0002.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 2](part0003.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 3](part0004.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 4](part0005.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 5](part0006.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 6](part0007.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 7](part0008.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 8](part0009.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 9](part0010.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 10](part0011.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 11](part0012.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 12](part0013.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 13](part0014.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Sneak peek of Rescued Love](part0015.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Exclusive invitation](part0016.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Dear Reader](part0017.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Also by Linda Ford](part0018.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # 1
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Trail to California, 1849
  
  
  It could not be him. There was no way.
  
  
  Faith White drew back, ducking behind the clean white canvas bonnet of the
  wagon. It could not be Gideon Ho