At Morning's Light
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- $85.00
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- $85.00
Descripción editorial
In her new homeland of Iowa, she must risk heartbreak and uncertainty for her dreams to flourish.
Maya Bredesen and her husband plan to journey from Norway to a new life at her cousin's boardinghouse in America, but on one last fateful fishing trip, a fierce winter storm steals away her husband. With her dreams for the future crushed, Maya is left grieving on the voyage to Iowa, accompanied instead by her brother, who plans to finish his seminary degree.
Arriving at a boardinghouse spilling over with orphans and a newly married couple, Maya struggles to find her place amid the chaos. A new friendship develops between her and Eben Miller, the reserved, kind farmer next door, but just as Maya begins to recover from her wounded heart, more tragedy engulfs her. As she and Eben weather trials together, can they overcome the difficulties this new land holds when it seems so far from becoming home?
This Christian fiction historical read by Lauraine Snelling paints a heartwarming story of family and love on the Midwestern frontier for readers of frontier romance, Janette Oke, and Tracie Peterson.
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Snelling's textured latest Home to Green Creek romance (after Land of Dreams) follows a widow as she starts a new life in the Midwest. In 1890, Maya Bredesen is set to leave Norway for America with her husband, Einer, when he dies in a storm. A devastated Maya decides to make the trip nonetheless, but arrives at her cousin Amalia's Iowa boardinghouse severely ill and angry at God for her misfortune. Upon realizing she's pregnant, Maya's buoyed by the renewed sense of connection to her late husband and regains hope. Things get complicated, though, when she bonds with her tall, selfless neighbor Eben Miller, with whom she discusses faith, his family struggles, and her heartbreak. Unsure what to do with such feelings only months after losing her husband, Maya wrestles with what it means to start over and rediscover happiness. Snelling paints a richly detailed historical backdrop and perceptively renders the tension between Maya's competing senses of loss and hope. Bolstered by plot threads carried over from previous installments, this immersive outing will satisfy series fans and new readers alike.
