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Synopsis
Beautiful and independent Nadine Von Keller has made a few too many mistakes. Now abandoned and far from home, she has nothing left but a black coat to wrap around her lies and desperation.
In 1881, intellectual Hayes Sullivan has one job as the local commissioner for the railroad, joining the east coast to the west. One night, running from his own complicated past, he succumbs to something unusually irrational and breaks down a door at the Silver Holiday Saloon. Crumpled in a smoke-filled room is a young woman presumably dead. After pulling her to safety, he stays with her into the night until he can find out who is responsible for her. The very information she refuses to reveal to anyone.
Grace Sullivan is a cooper-haired little girl without a mother. Can a sweet, needy child distract and intersect these two lives of shame and grief? By accident, Hayes finds mercy through writing letters. Humble words and truths that bring his heart back to the surface and Nadine's back from the dead.
Haunting pasts try to suffocate believable futures. God's Grace comes in like an wide-open flood to awaken the possibilities.
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