A Noble Groom
Despite her husband’s faults, the last thing that young wife Annalisa expected to face was his untimely death. Annalisa’s father, in an effort to help his now-widowed daughter keep her farm, writes to his brother in the old country asking that he find a husband for Annalisa. Meanwhile, in Germany, fate steps in and exchanges the hangman’s noose reserved for the wrongly convicted aristocrat Carl von Reichert for an escape route to the same small Germanic Michigan settlement that Annalisa calls home. As their lives and hearts begin to intertwine, it is only by discovering their own genuine identities that Annalisa and Carl can find their true homes. Swiftly becoming a well-known contender in the world of Christian historical fiction, Hedlund skillfully taps into her own German heritage to develop this tale of Old World romance and masked identity set against the backdrop of a nineteenth-century German American community. --Elizabeth Ponder