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    “You were made for The River . . .”

    Gabriel Clarke is mysteriously drawn to The River, a ribbon of frothy white water carving its way through steep canyons high in the Colorado Rockies. The rushing waters beckon him to experience freedom and adventure.

    But something holds him back—the memory of the terrible event he witnessed on The River when he was just five years old—something no child should ever see.

    Chains of fear and resentment imprison Gabriel, keeping him from discovering the treasures of The River. He remains trapped, afraid to take hold of the life awaiting him.

    When he returns to The River after years away, his heart knows he is finally home. His destiny is within reach. Claiming that destiny will be the hardest—and bravest—thing he has ever done.

    Ingrid Larsen, a young Swedish immigrant, arrives in Michigan in 1871 to search for her brother who has disappeared into the woods to work the dangerous lumber camps. Destitute and barely hanging on to hope, she encounters a newly-widowed farmer who is struggling to raise five children on his own. Marriage would solve both of their problems, and so Ingrid proposes to a man she barely knows. She will fight to protect her new family--but the hardest battle of all will be winning the heart of her new husband.

    Serena Miller lives only a few miles from a flourishing Amish community and counts many Old Order Amish as friends. Love Finds You In Sugarcreek, Ohio is a natural outgrowth of her ongoing fascination with these valiant, flawed people who struggle to live their lives according to their interpretation of the Bible.

    Her family, however, also lived for many years in Michigan. Serena's father, a sawyer, told her stories he had heard from old timber men who had cut the fabled giant pine in the Saginaw Valley. Visiting museums and reading about the years directly after the Civil War, when Michigan became the lumber capitol of the world, became a hobby. She used her research and writing to revisit that era by writing The Measure Of Katie Calloway, as well as her new book, A Promise to Love.

    She is also the author of The Measure of Katie Calloway and Love Finds You in Sugarcreek, Ohio, as well as numerous articles for periodicals such as Woman's World, Guideposts, Reader's Digest, Focus on the Family, Christian Woman, and more. She lives on a farm in southern Ohio.