num_pages: 320
description: Pride goes before the fall . . . but what comes after?Darbury England 1814Amelia Barrett heiress to an ancestral estate nestled in the English moors defies family expectations and promises to raise her dying friends infant baby. She'll risk everything to keep her wordeven to the point of proposing to the childs father Graham a sea captain shes never met.Tragedy strikes when the child vanishes with little more than a sketchy ransom note hinting to her whereabouts. Fear for the childs safety drives Amelia and Graham to test the boundaries of their love for this infant.Amelias detailed plans would normally see her through any trial but now desperate and shaken she examines her soul and must face her one weakness: pride.Grahams strength and self-control have served him well and earned him much respect but chasing perfection has kept him a prisoner of his own discipline.Both must learn to accept Gods sovereignty and relinquish control so they can grasp the future He has for planned for them.
language: English
title: The Heiress of Winterwood
publisher: Thomas Nelson