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    When she overhears her relatives making plans to take over the family estate and split her family up, Jennifer decides it is time to act. They must run away!Finally, hidden from prying relatives and strangers in a small cottage in the mountains, Jennifer and her family seem to be safe--until disaster strikes! One of the youngest children gets lost in the forest, and another falls dangerously ill. But, miraculously, in the midst of fear and despair, Jennifer finds the true source of strength--and an unexpected love.

    Then, suddenly, Rose's mother had died. To honor her memory, Rose went through with the trip, though doing so meant going to live with the wealthy relatives who had shunned her mother for marrying outside of Scotland's elite.But the glamour of her relative's castle and its priceless possessions can not hide the heartlessness of the inhabitants . . . or calm Rose's fear of the unscrupulous aristocrat who is scheming to marry her. Rose's only hope and comfort come from the letters she receives from handsome Gordon McCarroll, a friend she became reacquainted with as she began her journey. But can even Gordon save her from the people who seem determined to take control of her life. . . ?

    But suddenly she and a handsome young journalist were caught up in a desperate mission: saving the life of an abandoned baby! Could they bring the poor waif back from the threshold of death? Even if they could, what would happen to him? And would the budding friendship between Dale and George Rand develop into something more, something she had only dreamed of?

    Goforth continues the account that her husband began in the missionary classic, By My Spirit. Despite violence, disease, and poverty, the Goforths found God's provision to continue their work in the harsh land of post-imperial China.