The Long Road Home

The Hand of God, Book One

Author: Judi Ann Ehresman

A lonely settler. An escaped slave.
They had no idea how much they would need each other….

Mandy Evanston didn’t expect to spend five months alone in the wilds of Indiana after taking the wagon train west. But her husband, Ethan, is convinced he can make money working on the new railroad. It wouldn’t be fair to hold him back, Mandy decides, so she keeps her secret close to her heart…until his return.

Diedre, a young slave, flees a Southern plantation when she hears that her master is going to sell her son, Jedediah. She walks north for weeks, praying that somehow God will hear the pleas of her heart to find a home….