Butterfly Cottage Book Club Questions for Readers
1. Tamara lost her dear friend, Ruby, to Pancreatic Cancer after she’d suffered through the terrible Whipple procedure and died. What do you think some of her motivations were for not telling her family about her diagnosis?
2. Would you tell your family if you had a terminal diagnosis that had no truly viable treatment? Why or why not?
3. Have you known any young alcoholics like Parker and did his personality change from the alcoholism surprise you?
4. Have you ever had a multi-generational summer at a cottage? A week somewhere? And how did that go?
5. Have you ever had your faith tested like Jaycie, by friends or acquaintances, who were pushing worldly ways of thinking on you? If so, how did the Holy Spirit help you to combat those influences?
6. Dawn and her husband have a long and strong marriage. Were you surprised that he’d urged her to go spend this time up North on her own? If you were in a similar situation, would your husband do that for you—why or why not?
7. There are two Butterfly Cottages in this story. One is on the mainland in Mackinaw City, Michigan, which Dawn and her family own. But the original Butterfly Cottage is on the East Bluff on Mackinac Island and is adjacent to the Parker family’s resort. If you’ve read My Heart Belongs on Mackinac Islandand the Mackinac Island Romances Series (Anchored at Mackinac, Mackinac Island Beacon, and associated novel Behind Love’s Wall) the original Butterfly Cottage belonged to Jack Welling—the boy in those stories. Jack Welling was Dawn’s grandfather and Jack’s son, Jack Jr., had only daughters. I thought it would be fun to have a wild boy like 12-year-old Jack from My Heart Belongs on Mackinac Island have these women be his descendants!
The actual cottage I used for Butterfly Cottage exists in Mackinaw City on Huron Street but the cottage on the island was fictional. Do you like to go visit places where a story is set and have you visited Mackinac Island?
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