Kingsbury, Karen

Through an off-campus job at Fort Lewis, twenty-year-old Emily Anderson meets young Army reservist, Justin Baker, and their deep, emotional love, built on the foundation of faith, blossoms into plans for marriage, while Emily's newly reunited birth parents find their opposing views on war, politics, and faith threatening their chances for love.

A king devises a frightful final competition for the three knights who have excelled in the quest for the hand of his daughter, who possesses incomparable inner and outer beauty, in order to determine which is truly worthy of her love.

Holden Harris is an autistic eighteen-year-old who is bullied at school. Ella Reynolds is the head cheerleader who befriends Holden but has problems of her own at home.