Covenant Love

Two years after a massacre nearly emptied Dickinson County, Iowa, a young circuit preacher rides in to bring hope to the handful of settlers who remain.

John McKenna is fresh out of Bible college and ready to serve -- but nothing prepared him for a five-county frontier route with fewer than five hundred souls, a demanding presiding elder, and a woman who can't stand the sight of him.

Millicent MacPherson is beautiful, headstrong, and utterly unimpressed by the new preacher. She has bigger plans than settling down in a place plagued by "elements, critters, reprobates, or devils" -- especially when her mother returns from Philadelphia with a polished suitor in tow, one who promises to whisk Millie far from the dangers of frontier life.

But John can't get her out of his mind. Between baptisms and burials, moonshine rumors and mission calls, he finds himself drawn again and again toward a woman who barely acknowledges he exists.

Set against the raw beauty and real danger of Iowa's Northwest Frontier, Covenant Love is a tender story of faith tested, prejudice confronted, and a love that grows in the most unlikely soil. Book 2 of the Dickinson County Trilogy stands strong on its own -- a sweet, faith-filled romance for readers who love their happily-ever-afters wrapped in history and grace.

Will Millie ever see the man beneath the collar? Step into the frontier and find out.

-- Patricia Bollmann