Name: A Heartbeat Away, Quilts of Love Series #7
Brand: Abingdon Press
SKU: 752704
Price: 12.36 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.1 (10 reviews)
Author: Sandra Moore
ISBN: 9781426752704

When runaway slaves bring Union-loyal Beth Bumgartner a wounded Confederate soldier named Joe, she decides she must defy her pacifist parents and become a nurse. Taking comfort from her mother's mysterious goodbye gift of quilt blocks, she sews them together and discovers a hidden message in the pattern. Will it spur forgiveness and healing? 240 pages, softcover from Abingdon.

Title: A Heartbeat Away, Quilts of Love Series #7
By: Sandra Moore
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 240
Vendor: Abingdon Press
Publication Date: 2013

Dimensions: 8.50 X 5.50 (inches)
Weight: 10 ounces
ISBN: 1426752709
ISBN-13: 9781426752704
Series: Quilts of Love
Stock No: WW752704

A Heartbeat Away opens with a quilt that carries a hidden message capable of bridging a divide as deep as a nation at war. When a band of runaway slaves brings Union-loyal Beth Bumgartner a wounded Confederate soldier named Joe, the encounter pushes her to defy her pacifist parents and become a nurse during the Battle of Antietam.

Her mother’s mysterious goodbye gift, a set of quilt blocks, brings comfort through hard days and lonely nights, and as Beth sews each block, she discovers a hidden message of faith stitched into the pattern, one that encourages and sustains her. When she is reunited with Joe, she learns his secret and puts the quilt’s message to its greatest test. Can betrayal be forgiven?

Set against the Civil War, A Heartbeat Away, a moving historical romance, is written by S. Dionne Moore, an established author of historical Christian romance, and joins the Quilts of Love series of stand-alone novels.

S. Dionne Moore resides in South Central PA with her family. She is a weekly contributor to The Borrowed Book (http://www.theborrowedbook.blogspot.com) where she posts tips on the writing life, recipes, and teaches on various writing-related subjects. In addition to writing cozy mysteries, she pens historical romances that bring strong focus to locales within her region of Pennsylvania as a way of indulging her passion for history. November of 2011 saw the release of her first compilation, Promise Brides, a collection of three Pennsylvania romantic historicals. In Winter of 2012 the first of three romances set in Wyoming, A Sheepherder's Song, were released.