A Mess of Dreams – The Middlefork Series, book 1
An intriguing German POW and an alluring farmer each offer their hearts to Lorene, but when prejudice threatens the one she loves, his fate—and her future—are placed in her hands alone.
A MESS OF DREAMS is the first of four Christian historical romance novels in The Middlefork Series, and is available now! I’m so excited for you to meet Lorene and experience her powerful journey alongside her.
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A MESS OF DREAMS summary:
In spring of 1943, seventeen-year-old Lorene Stewart isn’t looking for complications. She’s content on her parents’ Illinois farm, longing for the day she might travel beyond the cornfields of Potomac. But when Amos Alexander chooses her angel food cake at the town cakewalk, everything changes. For the first time since tragedy struck her family long ago, Lorene’s heart stirs with hope. Yet as quickly as their romance sparks, a world torn apart by war threatens to extinguish it.
When Lorene befriends Dietrich, a German POW whose kindness and mysterious past captivate her, she begins to question everything. How can someone deemed “the enemy” side with all that’s right and good? And what if Amos has inherited his father’s deep prejudice, which he swore to resist? Amos is a young man who seems to know what he wants, but when his father forbids him to court Lorene, it’s unclear if Amos will honor his parents’ wishes or pursue true love no matter the cost. Lorene must fight to discern who she can trust if she ever aspires for dreams to become reality. Her hope of a future spent changing the world with the right man at her side depends on it.
As another year comes and goes, Lorene seeks freedom from a burden of guilt she’s carried since childhood while navigating the treacherous waters of first love and family loyalty. With a community divided by fear and suspicion, a forbidden friendship that challenges everything she thought she knew, and her own stubborn heart standing in the way, she must determine if love is worth the risk—or if some messes are too hopeless to become dreams.
