Includes an excerpt from Waiting season.

"A new year brings new challenges ... and the chance to make a dream come true. Melinda expected to spend January relaxing by the fireplace while paging through the seed catalogs' promises of spring. After all, the slower pace of the country was one of the reasons she'd let go of her bustling life in the city. Instead, she finds herself struggling to keep the worst of winter's threats from her door. Shoveling snow, thawing her acreage's water lines, and anxiously watching over the pregnant sheep in her barn fill Melinda's shorter days and longer nights. She pushes on because Horace's offer still stands: He'll sell her the farm in the spring if she truly wants to stay. But as winter tightens its grip, Melinda's biggest trials are still to come. When a series of events threatens to break her heart and shatter her hopes, can she find the strength to see the season through?" --