In Fairy Tales & Fraud
Montgomery, Alabama, Christmas 1917. Nathaniel Steele has survived a gunshot wound, a German spy ring, and humiliating heartbreak, but nothing in his years as a lawman prepares him for the morning he finds a trembling young woman and her feverish daughter hiding in his barn.
Willa Ashwood has walked through the winter woods for three weeks, sleeping in caves and abandoned barns, since men connected to a Georgia motor works plant silenced her husband for what he overheard. She gives Nathaniel a false name, a bare fragment of her story, and the most dangerous thing she possesses: her trust. Keeping that trust costs more than Nathaniel bargained for, as a telegram from Georgia reveals that the fraud runs deeper than a single murder, and the men responsible are still searching.
Back in Montgomery, Sophie Clark has never doubted that she’ll get exactly what she wants, and for months, what she’s wanted has been Nathaniel. But with her powerful father losing patience and a deadline looming in March, she finds herself drawn toward a bolder offer from a stranger as compelling as he is unreadable, one she isn’t sure she should trust.
And somewhere in the South, the fugitive Silas Kincaid, a ghost from Nathaniel’s past, is still at large. But he’s not the only ghost resurfacing.
Woven through with faith, Southern warmth, and the courage it takes to receive what you believe you do not deserve, this is a story about grace finding its way into the most unexpected places. But when provision arrives looking nothing like what he prayed for, will Nathaniel have the courage to let it in?
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