The doors Mira thought were closed forever are starting to open up . . . just a crack
Mira Dean is resigned to life as a spinster schoolteacher until an old schoolmate, Gordon Covington, shows up in town with an audacious marriage proposal. If she finds the courage to follow him to the mountains, will she see doors open that she thought closed to her forever?
Though the twentieth century dawned with such promise, it is just 1910 when Mira Dean’s hopes of being a wife and mother are dashed to pieces. Her fiancé is dead from tuberculosis and Mira must resign herself to being a spinster schoolteacher. But then Gordon Covington shows up and the doors that once seemed shut forever begin to open—even if only a crack.
No longer the boy she knew from school, Gordon is now a preacher who is full of surprises. First, he asks Mira to come to Sourwood in eastern Kentucky to teach at his mission school. Second, he asks her to marry him. Just like that.
Though the prospect of stepping onto a new path is scary, Mira takes a leap of faith and lands in a life she never imagined. In this place filled with its own special challenges, the people she serves just might end up becoming the family she always yearned for.
