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A Hope Undaunted
Christian romance
A Hope Undaunted
Book 1 of the Winds of Change series
505 pages · First published 2010
Katie O’Connor enters the summer of 1929 with a carefully designed future that includes law school ambitions and a wealthy boyfriend who meets her requirements for an ideal husband. Her plans collide with Luke McGee, the boy she once loved to hate, when her father forces her to spend the summer working alongside him. Old antagonism matures into a far more dangerous attraction as Katie’s vision of independence is tested by faith, family, and the approaching upheaval of the Great Depression. Julie Lessman opens the Winds of Change series with a passionate historical romance about a determined young woman discovering that hope can require surrendering the future she thought she had mastered.
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Violence, weapons, and peril · Mild romantic content, including kissing
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