Tending to the Pieces

The Reluctant Healer of Halifax

Series: Enduring Hope, Book 6

Written by Terrie Todd

Published by Barbour Fiction

Release Date: 08.01.26

Genre: Christian Romance

5 Stars The Halifax Explosion shattered almost everything around Pearline, and she kept tending to the pieces.

That is what I kept seeing in The Reluctant Healer of Halifax. People were injured. Families were torn apart. Her own grief was enormous. Her brother Benjamin was missing. Her sister stopped speaking. Oliver came home from war carrying wounds of his own. Pearline still kept moving toward people who needed care.

She did not have answers for all of it. She prayed. “Lord, You know where Benjamin is. Please lead us to him.”

That prayer says so much about the faith in this story. Pearline brings fear to God. She brings grief to Him. She thinks about Jesus. She keeps reaching for Him when she cannot fix what is happening around her.

That is exactly the kind of faith I hope to find in Christian fiction.

The history made everything heavier because the Halifax Explosion really happened. So many lives were changed in seconds. Terrie Todd lets the full weight of that devastation be felt, while still showing compassion, healing, and people choosing to care for one another in the middle of it. To be the hands and feet of Jesus.

Pearline became especially meaningful to me because she kept serving while hurting herself. She kept noticing the person in front of her. An injured stranger. An orphaned child. A family member falling apart. Someone else’s need did not become invisible just because her own heart was breaking.

God’s faithfulness runs through this story quietly and steadily.

That is the kind of Christian fiction I love. Jesus, prayer, and dependence on God are woven into how these people live through suffering and keep turning to Him.

This one hurt … and this one gave hope.

I received a digital copy of this book from Barbour Fiction via NetGalley. My review reflects my honest, heartfelt opinion.