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The Icecutter’s Daughter
Book 1 in the Land of Shining Water series.
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Merrill Krause has spent years working beside her father and brothers in Minnesota’s ice-harvesting business, and a promise to care for them has left little room for courtship. When Rurik Jorgenson arrives to join his uncle’s furniture enterprise, friendship develops into affection even as family obligations and a deceptive claim from his past threaten their future.
The novel treats Merrill’s competence as an asset rather than a defect, while showing how inherited duty can become a barrier to change. Christian honesty and mutual respect offer an alternative to manipulation, allowing love to grow without requiring either character to abandon responsibility.