The Carpenter's Wife A Novel 2003: Europe's Summer of Madness... Extreme heat. It plays tricks on people's minds and makes them do things they otherwise would not have done. It even gets to Tom Stark, who is used to it. Tom took part in the Gulf War as a mercenary. Now he is a married evangelical missionary in Germany. He lives outside a gritty town, whose crime rate is way too high for its size. Tom's world is about to unravel when seduction walks into his life in the form of Gina Delors, wife of the village carpenter. Gina has what Tom misses in Romy, his own wife... Will their love survive? A powerful story full of surprises that will leave you amazed, apalled, stirred, touched and inspired. It will entertain both men and women. Please be aware that this is not a stock genre romance. This story deals with temptation, but is free of sex scenes as it employs a Biblical perspective. However, it deals with struggling people in a permissive society. G.H. Holmes is at home on both sides of the Atlantic.