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Selah Award finalist and winner of the 2024 Caleb Award, Jennifer Mistmorgan is a must-read author of WWII historical romance. She writes imperfect characters “who grapple with God’s grace and love in a world at war,” swoony romance, and adventure sure to keep you turning pages and leave you with new friends by the last chapter.
At Home Down Under
Jennifer Mistmorgan is a native of Australia, and shares her perspective of why she loves her home in beautiful Canberra. While her stories take place all over the world, her first novel featured a hero from her homeland.
Bringing the Past to Life
Jennifer loves bringing the past to life not only in stories but also in food. A collector of vintage recipe books and kitchen gadgets, she shares about her adventures recreating historical recipes for research and enjoyment.
A Story of Rebuilding
Mistmorgan’s latest release, These Long Shadows, takes readers to London in 1945 – after the war in Europe has ended – offering readers a chance to explore the realities of living with the aftermath of such a brutal conflict.
Two years before, we meet Jonty Ables when he proposes to Katie Baines for the sake of her unborn baby. Now Jonty is back from the war, ready to do whatever it takes to be a good husband for his wife, but Katie isn’t sure her heart has room for him. With personal experience lending authenticity, Mistmorgan weaves a moving story of betrayal, loss, and grief slowly climbing its way to hope and new life. With sweet romance, a deep current of faith, and a touch of intrigue with a missing person case, these characters – and readers – are in for the journey of a lifetime.
How do they rebuild a marriage that wasn’t real in the first place?
London, 1945: Two years ago, Jonty Ables married Katie Baines to save her and her unborn baby from shame. But now the war is all but over, the baby is gone and they must work out where their shaky marriage fits into lives irrevocably changed by war.
Clinging to the memory of a time before all happiness evaporated, Katie works hard as a seamstress. At night she comes home to a tiny terrace on a bomb-scarred street, crammed with her extended family and their problems. Years of estrangement sit between her and her recently demobilized husband. She’s not even sure she loves him, so why is she so crushed that he calls out another woman’s name in his sleep?
Jonty is determined to honor the vows he made no matter how many ghosts now plague him, but with such separate lives his wife is more of a stranger than ever. When Katie’s friend goes missing, Jonty seizes the opportunity to help her find him just so they have a reason to talk. But the war casts long shadows over their efforts, and fighting for their future might just be the hardest battle of them all.
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