Dandelions on the Wind

This is my first time to read a book by Mona Hodgson, and it's been a pleasure. We have a heroine with a physical flaw–failing eyesight–and a hero with a emotional flaw–trying to live down the day he walked away from his bereaved mother-in-law and baby daughter after his wife's death. He has played the part of a coward to his family, and yet has survived the harsh years of the Civil War without losing even an arm or leg, when so many men did not return at all.

It seems that Maren is Wainwright's only ally as he seeks to reconcile with the family he abandoned and to prove himself all over again. But Maren is determined to return to her family in Denmark before her eyesight is completely gone. Can the two of them find happiness and home before it is forever too late?

I loved the family values in the story and the profound, concise life lessons. Mistakes are so easy to make and so often too hard to rectify. It's a pleasure to read about characters willing to do that hard work to make their lives clear before God and their fellow-men. Most definitely recommended.

I received a free review copy from NetGalley.