From the Ashes

From the Ashes

Author: Carolyn R. Scheidies

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The last days of the War Between the States, Dawn goes mute in terror when, from her hiding place high in a tree, she watches Union soldiers desecrate her sister Julia. A lieutenant's care of her sister in her last moments leaves her confused. In a single afternoon, Dawn loses her sister, her plantation home and her faith.

Still and all, she must stay strong for her younger brother, Caleb, as they make their way through the war devastation and danger to find their uncle in Boston. Once there, they find only a temporary respite as their welcoming uncle not only dies of his lingering illness, but also places them in the care of his lawyer who has no intention of providing for two orphaned young people.

Instead, they find themselves sent west to Kansas like orphan children. A kindly minister helps them along the way, but even he cannot prevent the dreadful man from claiming Caleb or from leaving Dawn stranded and alone. As Caleb fights against Jars who paid his way west, the lieutenant, Austin Andreeson, who has never forgotten the dying young woman's request to care for her sister ‟Dawn,” discovers that very young woman and her brother in need of his help.

Austin steps up to take them both under his wing and to his prairie home. As Dawn begins to feel safe again, as she begins to find again her faith and as her heart begins to beat for the man who has shown her such caring and kindness, very real danger, once more, rears an ugly head. Will Dawn release her fear to trust her Heavenly Father with her family, her home and her new found faith in order to find a future of hope...and love?