The Heart's Desire

A powerful story about love, mystery, and intrigue. The Baker family dreams of coming to the new and expanding lands in Kentucky. Tragically, the dream dies for all but a few who would survive. Ella Baker Gray marries and raises her own family, still believing her oldest brother, Benjamin, may have somehow survived the horrible tragedy decades before. When a stranger arrives in town, he brings a mystery as well as holds the keys to all of Ella's questions. Kate Gray finds her calling in life and her one true love, William Miller. Will his father come between them, or will her desire to become a teacher be a wedge that drives them apart. At the end of the annual Supper Basket Social, expected storms on the horizon threaten to destroy everyone and everything in their paths.