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Beth Thatcher comes back to Coal Valley after a change of landscape—and a change of heart. In the face of her fiancé Jarrick’s proposed marriage and a rapidly expanding school, she confronts a new teacher who opposes religious instruction. Beth must decide how to protect her students from the growing influence of Robert Harris Hughes, who promotes a secular philosophy that rejects God. The novel explores the clash between faith and modernity in a small Canadian mining community.
First publish date: 2016
Genre: Romance/Historical Romance
Authors: Janette Oke
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