The Heart's Frontier

HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS

EUGENE, OREGON

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or to events or locales, is entirely coincidental.

THE HEART’S FRONTIER

Copyright © 2012 by Copeland, Inc. and Virginia Smith

Published by Harvest House Publishers

Eugene, Oregon 97402

www.harvesthousepublishers.com

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Copeland, Lori.

The heart’s frontier / Lori Copeland and Virginia Smith.

       
p. cm.—(The Amish of Apple Grove ; book 1)

ISBN 978-0-7369-4752-7 (pbk.)

ISBN 978-0-7369-4753-4 (eBook)

1. Amish—Kansas—Fiction. 2. Families—Travel—Fiction. 3. Outlaws—Fiction. 4. Cowboys—Fiction. 5. Cattle drives—Fiction. 6. Kansas—Fiction. I. Smith, Virginia, 1960—II. Title.

PS3553.O6336H44 2012

813’.54—dc22

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Acknowledgments

Prologue

One

Two

Three

Four

Five

Six

Seven

Eight

Nine

Ten

Eleven

Twelve

Thirteen

Fourteen

Fifteen

Sixteen

Seventeen

Eighteen

Nineteen

Twenty

Twenty-One

Twenty-Two

Twenty-Three

Twenty-Four

Twenty-Five

Twenty-Six

Twenty-Seven

Twenty-Eight

Twenty-Nine

Thirty

Thirty-One

About the Authors

Discussion Questions

A Plain and Simple Heart: Chapter One

Other Books by Lori Copeland

AmishReader.com

About the Publisher

When we set out to write
The Heart’s Frontier
, neither of us considered ourselves experts on cattle drives or the Amish lifestyle. We devoured a lot of books on the cattle drives of the 1880s, and we spoke with many people who helped us understand the Amish approach to a simple life.

We’re so glad we did! What a fun period of America’s history, and what an incredibly interesting lifestyle we were privileged to learn about. We’re grateful to those who helped us tell our story with authenticity.

We owe a debt of gratitude to our agent, Wendy Lawton, who introduced us and made this coauthor arrangement possible. We’re also deeply grateful to the good folks at Harvest House who have worked alongside us to bring this story to you. Thanks to Bob Hawkins, Kim Moore, Terry Glaspey, Shane White, Barb Sherrill, LaRae Weikert, and all the others who believed in this book.

We’re each thankful for our supportive families, and especially to our Lord, without whom we could produce no book worth reading.

God bless
,

Lori Copeland and Virginia Smith