Her Mother’s Hope

From Publishers Weekly Romance Hall of Famer Rivers (Redeeming Love) returns with her first full-ength novel since 2003 with this two-generation saga of a mother and daughter, the first of two parts.

Ambitious, strong-willed Marta Schneider leaves her home in rural Switzerland at the beginning of the 20th century.

She's determined to flee her abusive father, loving but weak mother, and the constraints placed on women.

Meeting interesting characters all along her journey, she works her way to Canada.

There she buys a boardinghouse and meets her match in Niclas Waltert, a German engineer with a farmer's heart.

Through Marta's sharp elbows and the sweat of Niclas' brow, the family eventually arrives at an increasingly comfortable life in California's Central Valley.