"Schoolteacher Mercy Yoder loves her life in the tiny village of West Kootenai in Montana. A wildfire forces her family to evacuate to the small town of Eureka. John Hostetler, Mercy's beau, sorts through the damage left by the fire, helping Mercy set up a makeshift school. Eureka is filled with fire personnel, media, and rubberneckers-- more contact with the outside world than Mercy has ever experienced. A chance encounter with a smoke jumper, Travis Cooper, leads to longer conversations about her Amish beliefs and life. The Yoder home was one of the houses destroyed in the fire, and Mercy struggles to accept that everything they owned is gone. How can it be God's will that her family start over with nothing?"--Adapted from back cover.
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