A Quiet Independence
Louisa has spent her life helping other people find their stories. Now she must decide what she wants the next chapter of her own to be.
For years, Louisa has been content with her quiet life as the town librarian, surrounded by books, friends, and the only family she has left.
Then the war ends.
The men come home.
And Louisa loses her job to a returning soldier.
Suddenly the life she thought was secure has disappeared, while the man she loves is half a country away.
Mac has returned East to his wealthy family and their prestigious law firm, carrying wounds from the war that changed far more than his body. The comfortable world he once accepted without question no longer looks quite the same.
Louisa could remain safely where she is.
Instead, with one suitcase and considerably more courage than she believes she possesses, she boards a bus and follows the possibility of a future.
But Louisa has never been very good at passing someone who needs help.
By the time she reaches the city, she has already collected new friends and new worries. And although Mac would gladly solve every practical problem she has, Louisa is determined to build a life beside him-not one dependent upon him.
She finds her own boarding house.
Her own job.
Her own friends.
And eventually, meaningful work helping children whose families have been torn apart by war.
Mac loves watching her create a place for herself in his world.
Others are considerably less enthusiastic.
Because Louisa has an inconvenient habit of noticing people society would rather overlook.
When a young woman from her workplace disappears and one of Louisa's neighbors is murdered, questions begin leading into places neither Louisa nor Mac expects.
A respectable employer is hiding something.
Vulnerable women have vanished.
Powerful people have helped keep secrets buried.
And some of those secrets may reach directly into Mac's own family.
The deeper they search, the more Mac is forced to confront the privilege and corruption that helped build the world he came from.
Louisa, meanwhile, discovers just how dangerous independence can be for a woman who refuses to remain silent.
Their love must survive differences in wealth, family expectations, old relationships, new responsibilities, and truths neither of them is prepared to uncover.
But Louisa didn't cross the country to disappear into Mac's life.
She came to build one of her own.
And when danger finally comes for her, the quiet librarian everyone underestimates may prove that she never needed anyone to rescue her heart.
She only needed the courage to follow it.
A Quiet Independence is Book Three and the conclusion of The Home Fires Trilogy, a faith-filled World War II-era historical romance about love, justice, found family, wounded veterans, women's independence, and building a new life after the world has changed forever.
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