Emma Cartwright
ASIN: B078RL7L2P
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 81
Alyson Miller, née Peterson, is seeking refuge from poverty and despair in the town of Arcola, Illinois. Out of money and out of options, she boards a bus that will take her to her late husband’s parents.Pregnant and alone, Alyson hopes that the couple will take her in, and eventually, take her baby so that she can go on with the rest of her life, but she didn’t count on the love they would show her, love like she’s never experienced in her twenty-two years of living.Jacob Troyer, friend and neighbor of the Miller family, is suspicious of Alyson from the first moment they meet. Having been her late husband’s best friend, he can’t believe she’s Conrad’s widow. Surely his friend would have told him if he’d gotten married and was expecting a baby. Even though Conrad had left the community over a year before, they’d stayed in touch. Nothing in Conrad’s letters even hinted at such a thing. ...