Title: Where hope prevails
Description: When Beth Thatcher returns to Coal Valley, she has much to be excited about. She anticipates Jarrick's proposal of marriage and perhaps a spring wedding. The mine is expanding, and there are more schoolchildren than ever. The town's rapid growth means more students. A second teacher is assigned, and Beth finds herself going head-to-head with a very different philosophy of education -- one that dismisses religion and rejects God. Fearful for the children who sit under the influence of Robert Harris Hughes, Beth struggles to know how to respond.
Subjects: Coal mines and mining, Philosophy, Fiction, Teachers, Teaching, Women pioneers, Marriage proposals, Religion in the public schools, Fiction, romance, western, Canada, fiction, Fiction, romance, historical, general
Places: Western Canada