Coldwater Redeemed

<h4><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Some inherit the land. Others fight to belong to it.</em></strong></h4><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It is 1895 and the town of Coldwater Kansas stands at a crossroads. The railroad has finally arrived promising growth commerce and the slow unraveling of the old ways. For Joshua and Rachel Mertens-the children of Alice and Will-this new era brings both opportunity and quiet rebellion.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Joshua dreams of industry determined to build a new mill that will place Coldwater on the map. But his vision faces resistance from townspeople wary of change-and from those who question his growing partnership with Freyde Weinberg a brilliant but guarded Jewish woman who fled persecution in Eastern Europe. Together they must decide what they're willing to risk to forge a future neither of them could have imagined.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Rachel a gifted teacher at the Caleb School believes education is Coldwater's greatest hope-but her progressive ideals and her refusal to hide them threaten her relationship with the town's promising new doctor. As the push for women's suffrage gains momentum in Kansas Rachel must choose between a comfortable life of compromise or the uncertain path of conviction.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>At the heart of it all Will and Alice Mertens watch with quiet pride and growing concern as their children step into lives shaped by a world they could never fully predict. The old wounds of Coldwater still run deep-and not everyone is ready to see the town transformed.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Coldwater Redeemed</em> is a powerful deeply human novel about love legacy and the courage to shape one's own place in history. The final volume in <em>The Coldwater Trilogy</em> it asks the most timeless of questions: What does it mean to belong?</strong></p><p></p>