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.
