As Many as Touched Him

Ellen Mansfield is stuck on a farm, buried in chores and expectations, nursing two secret fires: her love for her sick brother Jerry, who dreams of being healed, and her forbidden ambition to become a dressmaker. When a letter from her Aunt Matilda arrives, it might be the key to a different life, but freedom has never come easily to girls like Ellen. Then a stranger, a preacher, arrives in the village, and everything Ellen thinks she believes about faith, healing, and her place in the world is thrown into question. This is a novel about the cost of waiting, the weight of unspoken dreams, and what it means to keep hoping when the world demands your silence. For readers who love quiet heroines and stories where faith is complicated, not simple.