The Song of Sourwood Mountain

The doors she thought were closed forever are starting to open up . . . just a crack Though the century began with such promise it is 1910 when Mira Dean's hopes of being a wife and mother are dashed to pieces. Her fiancé dead from tuberculosis Mira resigns herself to being a spinster schoolteacher--until Gordon Covington shows up.   No longer the boy she knew from school Gordon is now a preacher who is full of surprises. First he asks Mira to come to Sourwood in Eastern Kentucky to teach at his mission school. Second he asks her to marry him. Just like that.   With much trepidation Mira steps out in faith into a life she never imagined in a place filled with its own special challenges to serve a people who just might end up becoming the family she always yearned for.