While the century began with such promise, it is 1910 when Mira Dean's hopes of being a wife and mother are

dashed to pieces. Her fiancé dead from tuberculosis, Mira resigns herself to being a spinster schoolteacher--until

Gordon Covington shows up.

No longer the boy she knew from school, Gordon is now a preacher who is full of surprises. First, he asks Mira

to come to Sourwood in eastern Kentucky to teach at his mission school. Second, he asks her to marry him.

Just like that. And all at once the doors that had seemed firmly shut begin to open, just a crack.

With much trepidation, Mira steps out in faith into a life she never imagined, in a place filled with its own special

challenges, to serve a people who will end up becoming the family she always dreamed of.

From the pen of bestselling author Ann H. Gabhart comes a heartwarming story of the unexpected blessings

that can come when we dare to follow the Lord's leading.