Lauraine Snelling

A Measure of Mercy

by Lauraine Snelling

Hardcover

Astrid has always dreamed of becoming a doctor, but now that Joshua has returned to Blessing, everything has changed.

Sophie's Dilemma

by Lauraine Snelling

Hardcover

“Award-winning author Lauraine Snelling returns her readers to prairie life in Blessing, North Dakota, in this second tale of family life and love in the bestselling Daughters of Blessing series. We think the strong-willed yet endearing Sophie will warm your heart, just as she did ours. Certain she can’t live without first love Hamre Bjorklund, seventeen-year-old Sophie Knutson rejects her father’s request to postpone her marriage until after graduation. The impetuous Sophie convinces Hamre to elope…but now, estranged from her family, Sophie finds that life as a fisherman’s bride in far-away Ballard, Washington, is not all she had envisioned it to be. Pregnant and alone while Hamre is away at sea, she hires on at a fish cannery to assuage her loneliness, only to be fired after fainting on the job. When tragedy strikes, heartbroken Sophie can think only of returning home to her family in Blessing. But will they welcome her back after the way she’s hurt them by her defiant behavior? And can she open her heart to love again when she unwittingly captures a young widower’s affections? Sophie has some serious, unfinished business to attend to back home, if she’s ever going to have the fulfilling life she dreams of. Will she come to the realization, at last, that she needs the help of God and her family along the way?” —Andrea