First published 2015
Millie stands hours away from marrying Bump Anderson, a man who loves her completely. She carries a secret that could destroy everything. The choice tears at her. Tell the truth and risk losing him, or stay silent and live with the weight. She chooses silence and follows Bump to Colorado, where they plan to build a ranch from nothing. The wild landscape feels like freedom from her Mississippi past. But secrets have a way of surfacing. When the truth emerges, it threatens to unravel their new life together. Millie's Choctaw grandmother Oka arrives at the worst possible moment. She brings old traditions and hard wisdom about forgiveness. Millie resists. Some things cannot be forgiven, she believes. Moving mountains seems more likely than redemption. But Oka persists, showing her that the past can become the foundation for something better. Together, the three of them fight to make the ranch succeed while learning that their history holds the keys to their future.
Genres: romance, literary-fiction, historical-fiction, 20th-century, 21st-century, family-drama
Vibes: emotional-atmospheric, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, redemption, second-chance
Setting: Colorado, Mississippi
Period: 20th-century, 21st-century
418 pages · Kindle Edition · Thomas Nelson