Dandelions on the Wind
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Tattered relationships and broken hearts, like a quilt, can be pieced together by God’s love. When Maren Jensen took a job on Elsa Brantenberg’s St. Charles, Missouri farm, she never expected to call the place her home. As she grows to love Mrs. Brantenberg and her granddaughter, Gabi, Maren is transformed from a lonely mail-order bride-without-a-groom to a beloved member of the Brantenberg household. But when Gabi’s father, Rutherford “Wooly” Wainwright, returns to the farm unexpectedly, everything changes for Maren. Despite the failing eyesight that caused her suitor to reject her, she can see that Wooly desperately needs to reconnect with the family he abandoned when his grief sent him running toward the army—and into the Civil War. She also senses there could be something more between the widower and herself, if either can move beyond their past hurts. Comforted and counseled by the wisdom of the women in her beloved quilting circle, Maren begins to discover the cost such decisions demand of her heart. Are her choices in obedience to God, or is she running from His plan? Is it too late for love to be stitched into the fabric of her life?
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3 primary books#1 in Quilted Hearts
Quilted Hearts is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2013 with contributions by Mona Hodgson.
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This is my first time to read a book by Mona Hodgson, and it's been a pleasure. We have a heroine with a physical flaw–failing eyesight–and a hero with a emotional flaw–trying to live down the day he walked away from his bereaved mother-in-law and baby daughter after his wife's death. He has played the part of a coward to his family, and yet has survived the harsh years of the Civil War without losing even an arm or leg, when so many men did not return at all.
It seems that Maren is Wainwright's only ally as he seeks to reconcile with the family he abandoned and to prove himself all over again. But Maren is determined to return to her family in Denmark before her eyesight is completely gone. Can the two of them find happiness and home before it is forever too late?
I loved the family values in the story and the profound, concise life lessons. Mistakes are so easy to make and so often too hard to rectify. It's a pleasure to read about characters willing to do that hard work to make their lives clear before God and their fellow-men. Most definitely recommended.
I received a free review copy from NetGalley.
