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Beneath the Bending Skies
Christian fiction
Beneath the Bending Skies
352 pages · First published 2022
In 1860s Montana, Mollie Sheehan has spent years trying to honor her domineering father even when obedience costs her happiness. Falling in love with Peter Ronan gives her hope for a different future, but her father rejects the match and moves the family to California to separate them. Distance and time force Mollie to examine how far the command to honor a parent extends when a parent insists on controlling an adult child’s life. Based on a real woman’s story, Jane Kirkpatrick’s historical novel explores family duty, faith, hospitality, and the difficult distinction between respect and surrender.
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Controlling parent and emotional coercion; forced family separation; frontier hardship; death and grief; Christian faith themes.
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