Unending Devotion

by Jody Hedlund Book 1 in the Michigan Brides Collection series.

First published 2012

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Lily Young travels through Michigan’s lumber country searching for the sister who has disappeared into a world of remote camps, rapid settlement and weak protection for vulnerable women. Connell McCormick works within the prosperous timber industry and initially accepts many of its abuses as unavoidable parts of business. Lily’s determination forces him to look more closely at the people whose exploitation supports that prosperity.

Their search brings them into conflict with men who profit from isolation and intimidation. The novel uses the lumber boom to connect personal rescue with wider questions of labour, vice and commercial responsibility, while the developing relationship between Lily and Connell depends on whether conviction can be translated into action when doing so threatens money, status and safety.