In spring of 1943, seventeen-year-old Lorene Stewart isn\u2019t looking for complications. She\u2019s content on her parents\u2019 Illinois farm, longing for the day she might travel beyond the cornfields of Potomac. But when Amos Alexander chooses her angel food cake at the town cakewalk, everything changes. For the first time since tragedy struck her family long ago, Lorene\u2019s heart stirs with hope. Yet as quickly as their romance sparks, a world torn apart by war threatens to extinguish it<\/p>\n
When Lorene befriends Dietrich, a German POW whose kindness and mysterious past captivate her, she begins to question everything. How can someone deemed \u201cthe enemy\u201d side with all that\u2019s right and good? \u00a0And what if Amos has inherited his father\u2019s deep prejudice, which he swore to resist? Amos seems to know what he wants, but when his father forbids him to court Lorene, it\u2019s unclear if he will honor his parents\u2019 wishes or pursue true love no matter the cost. \u00a0Lorene must discern who she can trust if her dreams are to become reality. Her hope of a future spent changing the world with the right man at her side depends on it.<\/p>\n
As another year comes and goes, Lorene seeks freedom from a burden of guilt she\u2019s carried since childhood while navigating the treacherous waters of first love and family loyalty. With a community divided by fear and suspicion, a forbidden friendship that challenges everything she thought she knew, and her own stubborn heart standing in the way, she has to determine if love is worth the risk\u2014or if some messes are too hopeless to become dreams.<\/p>\n
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