INDIE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR SAMANTHA ADKINS TAKES YOU BACK TO THE 1900S IN THIS CLASSIC ROMANACE. At the height of the Depression on the Canadian prairies, Emmy Bennett seeks independence and adventure teaching in a country schoolhouse. Emmy strives for excellence in her classroom as she scrambles for resources and fights chronic absenteeism. She must depend on a dysfunctional family for her room and board and fight to be paid what she is owed. Emmy returns home for Christmas disheartened when she reconnects with a handsome young soldier, Lars Callas. They begin a long-distance correspondence and Emmy is charmed when his letters inspire her students to write and explore the Canadian North.