Mormons -- Fiction ; Mormon converts -- Fiction ; Women teachers -- Fiction ; Veterans -- Fiction ; Influenza -- History -- Fiction ; Grays Lake Outlet (Idaho) -- Fiction ; Idaho -- Fiction ; Historical fiction, American ; Christian fiction, American
Elizabeth Randolph is a newly baptized member of The Church of Christ of Latter-day Saints. She has left all she knows behind in Boston, Massachusetts to become a teacher in a one room schoolhouse in Grays Lake, Idaho. Elizabeth struggles to adjust to her new home and is starting to succeed when Alex Cannigan, an embittered, former soldier wounded in a battle in the First World War, crosses her doorstep. Elizabeth attempts to help Alex overcome his pain by teaching him about God. As trust slowly develops between the two, a devastating pandemic sweeps the world killing millions. Alex and Elizabeth both learn that the only way to pull themselves from the darkness is to follow God into the light. (Publisher website)