Prequel, The Red River of the North series
Bethany House
October 2013
On Sale: October 1, 2013
352 pages ISBN: 0764202030 EAN: 9780764202032 Kindle: B00CIUJYWU Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
The Long-Awaited Prequel to the RED RIVER OF THE NORTH Series
Twenty-year-old Ingeborg Strand is certain she is destined
to be an old maid. She's had several suitors but none she
deemed worthy of spending her life with. That is, until she
meets a university student from Oslo, and feelings stronger
than friendship begin to develop between them. But tragedy
strikes, and the future begins to look bleaker than ever.
Grief settles heavily over Ingeborg, and her mother suggests
that she leave Norway and start afresh in America, as so
many others have done before her. But how will she
accomplish that with little money and no one to accompany her?
It isn't long before she meets Roald Bjorklund, a widower
who has been planning to go to America for some time, lured
by the promise of free land. He's a good man, a
hard-working man--and he has a young son who desperately
needs a mother. He's clearly interested in Ingeborg, but is
he the answer to her prayers? And what about love? This
isn't how she's always imagined it.
Ingeborg Strand has a heartrending decision to make...