When Nora Johanson hears the conductor’s words, her heart begins to race. At last she will be in the arms of the man she promised to marry—Hans Larson. At fifteen, she was so sure of their love. Now, three years later and far from the mountains and fjords of her beloved homeland, Norway, she wonders. . . .

When Hans fails to arrive at the train station, Nora finds herself thrown into a life she never expected– with Reverend and Mrs. Moen, and Carl Detschman, a grieving German immigrant.

Was this really what God had planned for her?

Dakota Dawn is the first book of the Dakota Series that features the intertwining lives of five inspiring women, all who live in the early 1900s in the farming community of Soldahl, North Dakota.

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Clara Johanson has a ticket to America and a photograph of a blond, curly-haired, blue-eyed man to prove her point. But when she arrives in Soldahl, North Dakota, the man who meets her at the train station, Dag Weinlander, is definitely not blond and, to make matters worse, he obviously hasn’t bathed in days! At least she knows she will see the joy in her sister’s face when she surprises her by arriving at her Soldahl home.

As Clara begins her unexpected life as a single, Norwegian immigrant, she experiences the truth of God’s Word that “weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.” Along the way, she helps others, even Dag Weinlander, experience that truth too, as she steps into a new Dakota Dream far different than the one that brought her all the way from Bergen, Norway.

Dakota Dream is the second book of the Dakota Series that features the intertwining lives of five inspiring women, all who live in the early 1900s in the immigrant community of Soldahl, North Dakota.

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Jude Weinlander has the face of an angel . . . but the heart of a bully and a cheat.

When fire rages through his childhood home one night, Jude, full of anger and guilt, turns his back on family who could help him heal. He leaves Soldahl, North Dakota, and takes up wandering from town to town.

When he arrives in the small, fire-ravaged town of Willowford, North Dakota, he agrees to help schoolmarm Rebekka Stenesrude by rebuilding the schoolhouse before he moves on again.

But God keeps Jude in Willowford to work on his heart, teaching him that for every dusk there is a sunrise.

Dakota Dusk is the third book of the Dakota Series that features the intertwining lives of five inspiring women, all who live in the early 1900s in the immigrant community of Soldahl, North Dakota.

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When the woman lets out a piercing cry of labor, Caleb realizes this will be a Christmas Eve like no other.

Caleb and the town of Soldahl take Johanna Carlson and her two children into their hearts, but Johanna keeps her distance, afraid to tell anyone the truth about her life.

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Then after months of agonized waiting, news comes to Soldahl on Tuesday, November 11, 1918 that Victory Day has come.

Does Mary have reason to hope? Is the man she loves still alive?

The fifth book of the Dakota Series features the intertwining lives of five inspiring women, all who lived in the early 1900s in the immigrant community of Soldahl, North Dakota.

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