About this audiobook

She wrote to a stranger to keep from drowning in silence. He wrote back because her letters made him feel like a whole man again. It is 1874 on the Nebraska prairie, and Cora Meade has too much work and too little company: a homestead to hold, a schoolroom to teach, and a boy to raise who calls her Mama though she never bore him. When she answers a lonely-hearts advertisement in a Chicago paper, she expects nothing. What she gets is Silas Rourke, a Union veteran with a carpenter's patience and a way of writing straight to the bone. For a year their letters cross the plains, and two guarded people slowly tell each other the truth. Almost. Cora has never confessed that Emmett is her sister's child. Silas has never confessed what the war took from him. Then a stagecoach robbery strands a mail-order bride named Prue Kettle in the county, a forged letter surfaces, and Silas rides west to meet Cora at last. Every word they wrote is about to be tested against the flesh-and-blood stranger waiting on the platform. A warm, big-hearted novel of second chances, stubborn hope, and the courage it takes to be known.

Identity Healing Slow Burn Historical Romance Hopepunk Journey Family Hidden Identity Hero Psychological Small Town Betrayal Grief Survival Found Family