title: Levi's Prayer
author: Juengel, Janet
description: This is the second book in a Christian historical fiction romance series based on a congregation that moves to the Nebraska Territory to establish a new village.
      Levi finds himself with the joy and responsibility of raising his nephew after the death of his brother and his wife.  The child is of mixed heritage and Levi struggles with the prejudices he runs into at his local church.  An opportunity to move to the Nebraska Territory to help a greenhorn congregation figure out how to be successful on new homesteads seems like a gift from heaven.  Levi and baby Matthew join the group as they head to the new land.
  Levi is introduced to the preacher's granddaughter and her best friend Maddy.  It is Maddy who catches his eye, but Levi feels he's not ready to be looking for a wife.  After an act of nature forces a wedding between the two for propriety's sake, Levi wonders if he and Maddy have any chance of having a real marriage.