My dear Beth,Though Uppsala, Iowa, takes its name from a town in my indigenous Sweden, life here’s different from what I’ve known. With my parents’ blessing, I’ve taken employment in the house of Mr. Bridger, a dairy products farmer, looking after his ill mother and two youthful, orphaned nieces. It really is many unlike me to leave home, even inside a short-term manner. But the need is fantastic and Hattie Bridger and the kids are therefore endearing.As for Dirk Bridger, he’s an unhappy man, but also loyal, hardworking, and about Patterns of Love honorable. And, I should add, quite good-looking. My young sisters were smitten the instant they noticed him. Small flirts! And with beauty to complement. I, alternatively, am considered to have good sense to wait my common looks. But, friend Beth, I am afraid my center betrays my wisdom-for I, as well, long to be seen as beautiful.Not just by anyone. By Dirk Bridger.Your friend,Inga LinbergIn rural Iowa, life is both planter and uprooter of dreams. As like, long delayed, springs to life in the center of a young Swedish immigrant, one guy struggles with his withered ambitions-and brand-new blessings that could consider their place if he would but permit them space.Patterns of Love is Reserve Two in the Arriving at America series about ladies who also come to America to start new lives. Set in the past due 1800s and early 1900s, these books by best-selling author Robin Lee Hatcher art intense chemistry and discord between the characters, lit with a glowing trust and humanity that may win your heart. Look for other books in the series at your preferred Christian bookstore.