From the highly acclaimed author of
The Outcast and
The Alliance comes an engrossing novel about marriage and motherhood, loss and moving on.
When
Ruth Neufeld’s husband and father-in-law are killed working for a
relief organization overseas, she travels to Wisconsin with her young
daughters and mother-in-law Mabel to bury her husband. She hopes the
Mennonite community will be a quiet place to grieve and piece together
next steps.
Ruth and her family are welcomed by Elam, her
husband’s cousin, who invites them to stay at his cranberry farm through
the harvest. Sifting through fields of berries and memories of a
marriage that was broken long before her husband died, Ruth finds solace
in the beauty of the land and healing through hard work and budding
friendship. She also encounters the possibility of new love with Elam,
whose gentle encouragement awakens hopes and dreams she thought she’d
lost forever.
But an unexpected twist threatens to unseat the
happy ending Ruth is about to write for herself. On the precipice of a
fresh start and a new marriage, Ruth must make an impossible decision:
which path to choose if her husband isn’t dead after all.
"This story's heart-wrenching conflict had me glued to the page." - Francine Rivers