Across the Years

by Tracie Peterson Book 2 in the Desert Roses series.

First published 2003

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Ashley Reynolds supports her daughter by working as a Harvey Girl in Arizona after her husband is reported dead in war and her parents reject the marriage she chose. A stranger’s arrival unsettles the life she has constructed and forces her to revisit loss, family estrangement and the possibility that her understanding of the past is incomplete.

Set within the Grand Canyon railway-tourism economy, the novel examines the precarious independence available to widowed mothers and service workers. Christian forgiveness does not require Ashley to ignore betrayal; it gives her a way to confront it while deciding what kind of family can be rebuilt.