Heartland Wedding, After the Storm: The Founding Years

A storm and a scandal bring a widowed blacksmith and an immigrant woman together on the American frontier in this inspirational historical romance.

Rebecca Gunderson’s fresh start in High Plains, Kansas, is destroyed when a deadly tornado wrecks the immigrant’s new home—and her reputation. Everyone knows Rebecca rode out the storm with the town’s blacksmith, and no one believes her time with Pete Benjamin was totally innocent. To protect her, Pete offers Rebecca his hand in marriage . . . but the grieving widower can’t give her his heart. Is Rebecca trusting her happiness to a man trapped in the past? Or will faith and trust finally bring them through the storm to a brighter future?