Tim Stafford

Those Who Dream Tim Stafford

Kent Spires lost everything-his family, his job, his sense of self-and now he fears losing them a second time. He heads the drug and alcohol rehab center where he rediscovered his dignity, but he stands to be fired if he can't turn around the finances. He's isolated and lonely. He barely knows his adult children. Then Kent meets Meg. She's a strong woman who picked herself up from a divorce, started a business, and created a happy life. She's not sure she's interested in Kent, but she's willing to give him a try. When Kent's ex, the mother of his children, is brutally assaulted, Kent and Meg and Kent's children grow entangled. They meet at the hospital, where Alice is in a coma and not certain to live. As Kent goes searching for the homeless man he suspects of assault, Meg studies each isolated member of Kent's family, wondering whether she wants anything to do with them. Those Who Dream is a love story set against the disappointments of modern life and the challenges of drug addiction. It's a story of second chances, showing the strange juxtapositions of conservative faith meeting liberal culture in the Sonoma wine country. This is Tim Stafford's seventh novel. It is the second in a series set in and around the Sonoma Gospel Mission.