title: Serenity in the Storm
author: Feldhake, Susan C.
description: Lizzie Mathews was desperately concerned. She could sense trouble ahead, gathering somewhere like a great thundercloud--but she couldn't identify it. Belief in God's goodness had always made her strong. Would it sustain her through whatever lay ahead?
  
  Billy knew that Harmony deserved a man who was accomplished, educated, cultured -- someone without such a tarnished past as his own. She had nursed him back to a new life, but what about the future? Could her healing Christian love her develop into something personal, more romantic?
  
  Jumping wholeheartedly into a life of freedom and adventures, young Thad now found himself over his head in dangerous waters. This world of reckless gamblers and virtueless women might just be too far from home…
  
  From a log cabin in the rugged northern woods to a riverboat on the mighty Mississippi, here are the stories of two prodigals, of a mother's agonizing test of faith and of a quiet Indian maiden caught in the eye of the storm.
  
  Hero: Billy LeFave
  Heroine: Lizzie Mathews