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The Girl from Tomorrow's Town
Christian romantic suspense
The Girl from Tomorrow's Town
Ten years after being sent west on an orphan train, Lily Mae Dodge leaves Wyoming by night and heads toward Chicago in hopes of finding the mother who surrendered her. An arrest nearly derails the search, but Francis Basnett—a circus roustabout with an unusual visual impairment whom she met on the train—helps her find work with the Hagenbeck-Wallace circus. Friendship becomes romance as Lily follows the circus and draws closer to answers about her family. Her fragile new future is threatened when a troop train crashes into the stalled circus train, placing this historical romance against the real dangers of early twentieth-century rail travel and show life.
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Circus life and search for a missing/absent mother; catastrophic 1918 circus-train collision; dozens killed; mass-casualty disaster, injuries and grief; Christian faith and clean romance.
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