LOVE’S ABIDING JOY

From Janette Oke’s award-winning, bestselling series comes the inspiring new chapter in the life of one family’s unyielding perseverance and struggle, and the tragedy that tests their abiding faith.

Missie (Erin Cottrell, Little House on the Prairie) and Willie (Logan Bartholomew, Love’s Enduring Promise) LeHaye have put down roots and raised a fine family in a homestead in the far West. While Missie fulfills her ambition for teaching twelve eager students, fours days a week. Willie tends to their youngest daughter Kathy, and with the help of his sons Jeff and Matthew, keeps their growing ranch as stable and prosperous as he can. Best of all, with a frontier railroad now coming through town, Missie father, Clark Davis (Dale Midkiff, Nancy Drew), makes good on his promise for a long-awaited visit. But the joy that comes with the family reunion is shattered by the sudden passing of their beloved daughter, Kathy a tragedy that marks a turning point in the lives of the LaHayes.

As an emotional wedge gradually comes between Missie and Willie, the grieving father makes a drastic change in his career. Without consulting Missie, Willie accepts the offer made by arrogant local moneyman, Samuel Doros (John Laughlin, The Rock), who also owns the school, to act as the town’s newly appointed sheriff. It’s a job that has its own share of dangers that will affect Willies son Jeff, (Drew Tyler Bell, The Bold and the Beautiful) who falls for Doris’s daughter Colette (Mae Whitman, JAG). Through grief, heartache, first love, and second chances, the LaHayes discover the only thing they really need is the one thing they’ll never lose faith and the enduring bond of family.

Janette Okes cherished series of novels has warmed the hearts of millions. Now share her vision of inspiration in Love’s Abiding Joy.