New York Situations best-selling author Francine Rivers has received such prestigious honors as the Christy Prize for Inspirational Historical Fiction and the ECPA Yellow metal Medallion. In The Scarlet Thread, a woman learns to cope with life’s difficulties by looking to the past. Sierra and her family members move to Los Angeles when her spouse lands a new work — but big-city lifestyle brings many problems. Soon, Sierra finds herself watching helplessly as her family members disintegrates. Then she discovers an ancestor’s journal — and gradually learns to put her rely upon God.