Of Love and War
3 total works
Left an orphan and nearly penniless, Nora Lewis is anxious for a new start, far away from the memories of her deceased parents and the solider fiancé she lost in the Great War. When a distant uncle in England leaves his property to her, Nora sees the new opportunity as a blessing and moves from America to carve a future for herself in Britain. But her new home turns out to be a dilapidated cottage and sheep business bordering the estate of a disgruntled WWI veteran. A man who doesn't want Nora to stay.
Collin Ashby is struggling with life after serving in the Great War. The economic crash of 1921 has threatened his family's centuries-old estate, but a well-matched marriage and acquiring the sheep business next door might pull the estate from possible ruin. And prove to Lord Ashby that his second and only living son is not a failure. But Collin doesn't count on their new neighbor being a pretty, American woman with a strong determination not to leave.
With her brothers away fighting the Great War overseas, Livy Campbell desperately wants to help her family. Her chance comes when she meets a handsome stranger who lands her a job as a teacher in a place far from her parents' farm. But the war casts a long shadow over the German-American town that Livy now calls home-and the darkness will test everything she thought she knew about family and love . . .
More than anything, Friedrick Wagner wants to be part of his adopted country's struggle for peace. But when the bitter animosity between Germans and Americans soon turns citizens against newcomers, friend against friend, he will do whatever it takes to protect Livy from the hysteria that grips their town. As tragedy - and dark secrets from the past - threaten their future, Friedrick and Livy have one chance to stand up for what's right . . . and one chance to fight for their love.
Pregnant but not married, WWI nurse Evelyn Gray plans to marry the father of her baby to keep from disrupting the failing health of her grandparents at home and fulfill her dream of a family, even if it means she can't work at the hospital in France anymore. But when she learns her soldier's been killed, she decides she must convince his best friend, Corporal Joel Campbell, to marry her instead.
Joel Campbell only wants to survive the Great War so he can return to Iowa, find a girl to marry, have a family and hopefully escape the guilt he harbors over his best friend's death. A battle injury that prevents him from ever being a father and a marriage proposal from a practical stranger are not part of his plans. But are they God's?
Risking their lives in war-torn France, Evelyn and Joel will need to rely on God and each other if they ever hope to find what they want most-love and family.