Where the Lilies Wait

Laurel Springs, North Carolina, 1942. Preacher's daughter Ruth Carter has made herself one promise: she will never marry a man who can't pray with her. Then Jack Hollis, the town mechanic who stopped speaking to God the day his younger brother drowned in the Haw River, gets his draft notice, and all she can offer him is letters. No ring. No pledge. Just the truth.

From the hedgerows of Normandy to a hidden hayloft where a French farm wife shelters a Jewish mother and daughter, Jack runs out of ways to keep God at arm's length. At home, Ruth learns that waiting is its own kind of courage: one day, one train, one answered prayer at a time.

A heartfelt story of faith, love, and the long road home.