Man of the Desert

The Arizona desert doesn't forgive weakness, but it does forgive transformation. Hazel Radcliffe flees into its burning emptiness fleeing an aggressive suitor, only to find something she never expected: a man whose faith is as steady as the red rock formations surrounding his mission. John Brownleigh is no wealthy bachelor - he's a missionary who has given his life to serving God in one of the harshest places on earth. When Hazel collapses from exhaustion and he nurses her back to health, neither expects to find in the other a soul that mirrors their own. They part knowing only love - she to her world of silk dresses and idle days, he to his small chapel and simpler truths. Back among family who expect her to return unchanged, Hazel faces a harder journey than crossing the desert: choosing between who she was raised to be and who her heart now knows she could become. Grace Livingston Hill writes with warmth and quiet power about the transforms that love and faith demand.