The Widow Hemstad

When Norwegian immigrant Amalie stepped off the train in South Dakota, she carried nothing but a wooden trunk and the desperate hope that marriage to a stranger would save her from a life of poverty. Four years later, she has everything she never dared dream of: 1000 acres of prosperous farmland, livestock, and security.

But when her husband’s wandering eye settles on young Anna Bekk, Amalie faces a familiar threat: being discarded, unwanted, erased. She’s been a burden before. She won’t be one again.

On the frontier, survival demands hard choices. And Amalie has always been practical.