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Also by Jane Kirkpatrick:

Across the Crying Sands, May 2025
Paperback / e-Book
Beneath the Bending Skies, September 2022
Paperback
Beneath the Bending Skies, September 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
The Healing of Natalie Curtis, September 2021
Paperback / e-Book / audiobook
Something Worth Doing, September 2020
Paperback / e-Book
One More River to Cross, September 2019
Paperback / e-Book
Everything She Didn't Say, September 2018
Paperback / e-Book
All She Left Behind, September 2017
Paperback / e-Book
This Road We Traveled, September 2016
Paperback / e-Book
The Memory Weaver, September 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
A Light in the Wilderness, September 2014
Paperback / e-Book
A Log Cabin Christmas, September 2011
Paperback / e-Book
A Flickering Light, April 2009
Hardcover

A Flickering Light
Jane Kirkpatrick

Portraits of the Heart, Book 1
WaterBrook Press
April 2009
On Sale: April 14, 2009
400 pages
ISBN: 157856980X
EAN: 9781578569809
Hardcover
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Fiction

Returning to her Midwest roots, award-winning author Jane Kirkpatrick draws a page from her grandmother’s photo album to capture the interplay between shadow and light, temptation and faith that marks a woman’s pursuit of her dreams.

She took exquisite photographs, but her heart was the true image exposed.

Fifteen-year-old Jessie Ann Gaebele loves nothing more than capturing a gorgeous Minnesota landscape when the sunlight casts its most mesmerizing shadows. So when F.J. Bauer hires her in 1907 to assist in his studio and darkroom, her dreams for a career in photography appear to find root in reality.

With the infamous hazards of the explosive powder used for lighting and the toxic darkroom chemicals, photography is considered a man’s profession. Yet Jessie shows remarkable talent in both the artistry and business of running a studio. She proves less skillful, however, at managing her growing attraction to the very married Mr. Bauer.

This luminous coming-of-age tale deftly exposes the intricate shadows that play across every dream worth pursuing–and the irresistible light that beckons the dreamer on.

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