"It is silent now, the blizzard has paused and left the moment still. I think about them both at such times -- roaming the shadowlands of remembrance amidst the shards of my broken heart."
--Exerpt from Hunter Bell's diary
The winter storms of the wide-open frontier reflect the anguish raging in Hunter Bell, a minister who heads to Utah's gold-mining towns after his wife dies in childbirth. A man with nothing left ot loose, he plays the card tables for money to care for his youngs daughter back home. But in the heart of a driving blizzard, Hunter makes a shocking discovery --and begins to see that a life tested by unthinkable cruelty can still be rich with faith, love, and hope for a better tomorrow...
#1 bestselling author Richard Paul Evans steps back to the American Old West with this powerful novel of love and redemption, part of a trilogy that includes The Locket and The Carousel.

Contents

PROLOGUE

one Quaye

two Hunter Bell

three Isabel

four Samson and Delilah

five Flight

six The Wax Woman

seven The House of God

eight Eureka

nine The Great Salt Lake City

ten Sonny Chang

eleven Quaye's Arrival

twelve Jak Morse

thirteen The Woman in the Snow

fourteen The Stranger

fifteen The Preacher's Soul

sixteen Syau Lou

seventeen The Abduction

eighteen The Inscription

nineteen The Burial

twenty The Funeral

twenty-one A Glass Darkly

twenty-two Hunter's Absence

twenty-three The Looking Glass

twenty-four Broken Glass

twenty-five News

twenty-six Three of a Kind

twenty-seven Quaye's Choice

twenty-eight The Lynching

twenty-nine Farewell

thirty The Redemption

EPILOGUE

Richard Paul Evans is the #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of more than forty novels. There are currently more than thirty-five million copies of his books in print worldwide, translated into more than twenty-four languages. Richard is the recipient of numerous awards, including two first place Storytelling World Awards, the Romantic Times Best Women’s Novel of the Year Award, and is a five-time recipient of the Religion Communicators Council’s Wilbur Awards. Seven of Richard’s books have been produced as television movies. His first feature film, The Noel Diary, starring Justin Hartley (This Is Us) and acclaimed film director, Charles Shyer (Private Benjamin, Father of the Bride), will debut in 2022. In 2011 Richard began writing Michael Vey, a #1 New York Times bestselling young adult series which has won more than a dozen awards. Richard is the founder of The Christmas Box International, an organization devoted to maintaining emergency children’s shelters and providing services and resources for abused, neglected, or homeless children and young adults. To date, more than 125,000 youths have been helped by the charity. For his humanitarian work, Richard has received the Washington Times Humanitarian of the Century Award and the Volunteers of America National Empathy Award. Richard lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with his wife, Keri, and their five children and two grandchildren. You can learn more about Richard on his website RichardPaulEvans.com.