In Depression-era Kansas, a few have never experienced the hard times . . . .Sara McGurk has a comfortable life: an exciting boyfriend, a good home, and a responsible job. She answers the fan mail for her father's radio show. And a broadcasting network has just picked Pastor McGurk's program, Heaven and Earth, for a national debut. Sam McGurk is about to become a celebrity.But Sara gets some unexpected news of her own. She is with child. The façade of her easy life is about to implode.The result is banishment. From her own home.In desperation, Sara turns to her boyfriend. This leads to a violent argument. Larry leaves her bleeding and abandoned on an empty road in front of a forbidding limestone house in the middle of nowhere.Deliverance comes in the form of a strange group of social outcasts. The house was once a county asylum, now a poor farm. The people there take her in. Now, Sara must heal from her wounds while coping with her fellow residents and Gloria Eisner, the recalcitrant matron of the tenant house. But her biggest questions are what will happen to her baby, and will she ever find peace again with her father? After butting heads with Gloria, the matron gives Sara the demanding job of caring for the poor farm's infirmary. She gets some help from the house's youngest residents: a feeble-minded boy of 16, and a mute young woman. The three become a team.The silence of the country is mind numbing. Sara longs for the bustle of the city, the clatter of cars, and the sound of news and music. So she writes to her father's show as another resident asking for a radio. Her letter is one among hundreds her father's mailroom receives each week. A futile gesture. But Pastor Sam McGurk needs something to spark his network debut. He needs a story that will captivate his new, nationwide audience. For this, he turns to his staff in the mailroom to find him an attention-getting letter that would launch his premiere.And he finds one from a young woman on a poor farm.Beyond the horizon, forces are approaching. Will Sara come to terms with her father? Or will she and her refuge be left devastated like the aftermath of a Kansas dust storm?Tune in.
Fifty years ago, Heinrich "Henry" Rohling was a German POW in Camp Conrad. Now widowed and in his seventies, he journeys back to Conrad, Kansas, to join in a POW reunion. And to correct the American verdict that his friend Novak died of suicide many years ago. At the reunion, Henry meets familiar faces: Reinhardt, the former colonel who ran the inside of Camp Conrad with an iron fist, Emily, the farm girl Henry fell for and left behind, and Kimmel, his bitter rival—now married to Emily. How can Henry convince the Americans that another prisoner killed Novak? What other secrets did the camp hold? And why did Emily remain married to an ogre like Kimmel? With clues falling into place, Henry believes the killer still lives. Can he uncover the mystery before the killer strikes again?
Unlike many in Depression-era Kansas, 23-year-old, single, Sara McGurk has a comfortable life, but a trip to the doctor reveals she is with child. The results are banishment from home and a violent argument with her lover that leaves her bleeding and abandoned in front of a forbidding limestone house. A group of social outcasts takes her in. Now, Sara must face the future and protect her child while coping with her strange fellow residents. What will happen to her baby? Can she make peace with her father and escape her shame to find love and hope again?
Fifty years ago, Heinrich "Henry" Rohling was a German POW in Camp Conrad. Now widowed and in his seventies, he journeys back to Conrad, Kansas, to join in a POW reunion. And to correct the American verdict that his friend Novak died of suicide many years ago. At the reunion, Henry meets familiar faces: Reinhardt, the former colonel who ran the inside of Camp Conrad with an iron fist, Emily, the farm girl Henry fell for and left behind, and Kimmel, his bitter rival—now married to Emily. How can Henry convince the Americans that another prisoner killed Novak? What other secrets did the camp hold? And why did Emily remain married to an ogre like Kimmel? With clues falling into place, Henry believes the killer still lives. Can he uncover the mystery before the killer strikes again?
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