A Christmas Prayer: A Cross Country Journey in 1850 Leads to Mountain Danger and Romance

By Wanda E. Brunstetter

Beloved, bestselling author of Amish fiction Wanda E. Brunstetter takes readers on a journey in 1850 along the California Trail.

Only the brave, or the foolhardy, would attempt a cross country journey late in the season. Three wagons meet up in Independence, Missouri, in April 1850, and their owners decide to keep forging ahead despite many setbacks and delays. December finds them in the Sierra Nevada Mountains when a sudden snowstorm traps them and hides the trail.

Cynthia Cooper is traveling with her mother and the man she has promised to marry. But as Christmas arrives and they are hunkered down in a small cabin, she is forced to rethink her reasons for planning to marry fellow traveler Walter Prentice. When a widowed father heading to a California ranch and a gold prospector both show an interest in Cynthia, she weighs her dreams for marriage against her responsibility to care for her mother. Can love win over her timid heart?

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