Waiting Season

Melinda Foster hoped to spend January relaxing by her farmhouses fireplace while paging through the seed catalogs promises of spring. Instead she finds herself struggling to keep the worst of winters threats from her door. Shoveling snow thawing her farms water lines and anxiously watching over the pregnant sheep in her barn fill her shorter days and longer nights. She pushes on because Horaces offer still stands: Hell sell her the farm in the spring if she still wants to stay. But as winter tightens its grip on rural Iowa her biggest challenges are still to come. When a series of events threatens to break her heart and shatter her hopes will Melindas faith be strong enough to see the season through? Fourth in a series