Publisher Description
Six years ago, a shocking secret sent Agnes Pratt running in search of a new start. She found it in Penance, a rugged town of miners and lumberjacks in the Dakota Territory, where she became Miss Aggie, respected schoolteacher and confirmed old maid. But the past has a way of catching up with people. When childhood friend and former sweetheart James Harris accepts a position as the town doctor, Aggie's pleasantly predictable days suddenly become anything but. James wants to know why Agnes left behind the life they had dreamed of creating for themselves—but he is the one person who can never know. In the shadows of the Black Hills, can a healing light be shed on the past? Or will the secret Agnes can't seem to outrun destroy her chance at happiness?
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About Teri Clark Linden
Amy Newmark is publisher, coauthor, and editor of the
Chicken Soup for the Soul book series. She has edited or coauthored the last
one hundred books in the series. Amy graduated magna cum laude from Harvard
University where she majored in Portuguese, and spent her senior year editing a
newsletter about telecom sales in Brazil and also traveling in northeast
Brazil, collecting poems and stories of local writers for her thesis. She went
on to run her own hedge fund, specializing in telecommunications and technology
companies and stepped in as publisher of Chicken Soup for the Soul in 2008. She
is delighted to have come full circle in her writing career. Amy is married to
Chicken Soup’s CEO, Bill Rouhana.