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In 1897, pastor's daughter Inga Linberg joins the ranks of Swedish immigrants traveling to Iowa for a new life. Inga's plans to live at home and care for her parents change suddenly when dairy farmer Dirk Bridger comes to the pastor's house looking for assistance in caring for his two nieces and his ailing mother. Dirk plans to sell the farm eventually so that he can travel the world and chafes at the ties holding him to the farm. As Inga brings light, love, and the Lord to the Bridger family, Dirk fights his growing feelings for her, refusing to add one more tie to hold him down. The sudden, but not unexpected, death of his mother forces Dirk to change his mind. Hatcher continues the shift of her "Coming to America" trilogy from the secular market to the Christian one, offering her RITA Award-winning style to a new audience. Fans of immigrant fiction where the characters face tests of faith in a new country, such as some of Gilbert Morris's "House of Winslow" series and his new title, Jacob's Way (reviewed below), will enjoy this. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.