Welcome back to Bliss Valley in the heart of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Travel there with A PROMISE OF FORGIVENESS which releases exclusively in paperback at Walmart on November 30, 2021. (Look for the paperback, ebook and audiobook available wherever books are sold on February 22, 2022). Secrets linger among the quaint covered bridges, rustic red barns, white farmhouses bedecked with laundry and handmade quilts wafting in the fresh air. In the second book of this series from Love Inspired Trade (following A WISH FOR HOME), hearts broken by betrayal and loss must be willing to take just one more chance when Naomi comes home to find Samuel, the boy who shared her first kiss. They’ve been changed in ways neither of them could have imagined the last time they saw each other ten years ago.   A is for ACCIDENT. Samuel King’s car accident showed this angry young man how messed up his life is…and leaves him physically messed up as well.   P is for PROTECTIVE. Naomi Gingerich Ropp is protective of Jared and Jesse, her toddler sons, and the secret she keeps in her heart, a secret about how her marriage wasn’t what she expected it to be….

[Lauren’s] fingers tightened on the steering wheel as she descended a steep hill toward a covered bridge. It was over Bliss Creek. Most of the covered bridges in the county were only a single lane, so she must be sure no other vehicle was passing through it. She doubted many plain folks would be out in their gray buggies on such an inclement night, but she couldn’t assume. Not after the bane of her childhood, Adam Hershberger, had lost his parents when a car sped through a covered bridge without checking that no other vehicle was inside it. Adam and Samuel and Joel…and her one-time best friend Naomi Gingerich. She hadn’t thought in years about any of the kids who would have graduated with her from the plain school. Were they still living in Bliss Valley? Regret clamped onto her. Though she didn’t care what had happened to those three cruel boys, she should have made more of an effort to stay in touch with Naomi. The two of them had been inseparable until her parents had jumped the fence into the Englisch world a few months before eighth grade graduation. She shoved the memories aside. Each memory made her…