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Land of My Dreams
by Norma Gail
Blessings come when you leave the familiar and take a step of faith.
Alone and betrayed by a former fiancé, American professor Bonny Bryant accepts a position at a small college in Fort William, Scotland. But when she meets a fellow professor, Bonny discovers her wounds may be the scars of healing Kieran MacDonell needs to reach past his own grief. Land of My Dreamsspans the distance between New Mexico’s high desert mountains and the misty Scottish Highlands with a timeless story of overwhelming grief, undying love, and compelling faith.
Captive Trail
by Susan Page Davis
A girl has become a woman while in captivity. A stagecoach driver longs to take her to the home she barely remembers.
Taabe Waipu flees her Comanche village. Somewhere in southern Texas her real family lives in the white world. For years she’s struggled to keep the memories from fading. She stole the horse she is riding from a dowry left outside her family’s teepee. After an accident, she is left on foot, injured and exhausted. She staggers onto a road near Fort Chadbourne and collapses.
On one of the first mail runs through Texas, Butterfield Overland Mail Company driver Ned Bright carries two Ursuline nuns returning to their mission station. They come across Taabe, who is nearly dead from exposure and dehydration, and take her to the mission.
With some detective work, Ned discovers Taabe Waipu’s identity. He plans to reunite her with her white family, but the Comanche have other ideas. Taabe and Ned learn the true meaning of healing and restoration amid seemingly hopeless situations.
Taabe Waipu flees her Comanche village. Somewhere in southern Texas her real family lives in the white world. For years she’s struggled to keep the memories from fading. She stole the horse she is riding from a dowry left outside her family’s teepee. After an accident, she is left on foot, injured and exhausted. She staggers onto a road near Fort Chadbourne and collapses.
On one of the first mail runs through Texas, Butterfield Overland Mail Company driver Ned Bright carries two Ursuline nuns returning to their mission station. They come across Taabe, who is nearly dead from exposure and dehydration, and take her to the mission.
With some detective work, Ned discovers Taabe Waipu’s identity. He plans to reunite her with her white family, but the Comanche have other ideas. Taabe and Ned learn the true meaning of healing and restoration amid seemingly hopeless situations.
