
Part of Series
When his self-indulgence causes the tragic deaths of both his mother and wife, Jude Weinlander sets to drifting about the plains of North Dakota, a pitiful loner in search of peace and forgiveness. Jude's routine of a day job for a meal is interrupted when he meets Rebekka Stenesrude, the schoolmarm of tiny Willowford, North Dakota. As they rebuild the fire-ravaged local school, Jude and Rebekka cannot deny their attraction, but to act on it is another matter. Will Jude at last plant roots in the prairie soil...or move on before another Dakota dusk?
Author

Award-winning and bestselling author Lauraine Snelling has over 80 books published with sales of over 4.5 million. Her original dream was to write horse books for children. Today, she writes adult novels about real issues centered on forgiveness, loss, domestic violence and cancer in her inspirational contemporary women’s fiction titles and historical series, including the favorite, Blessing books about Ingeborg Bjorklund and family. Lauraine enjoys helping others reach their writing dreams by teaching at writer’s conferences across the county. She and her husband Wayne have two grown sons, and a daughter in Heaven. They live in the Tehachapi Mountains with a Basset named Sir Winston ob de Mountains, Lapcat, and “The Girls” (three golden hens).