{"product_id":"a-quiet-independence-noelle-jane-myers-9798832626048","title":"A Quiet Independence","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLouisa has spent her life helping other people find their stories. Now she must decide what she wants the next chapter of her own to be.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor years, Louisa has been content with her quiet life as the town librarian, surrounded by books, friends, and the only family she has left.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the war ends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe men come home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd Louisa loses her job to a returning soldier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuddenly the life she thought was secure has disappeared, while the man she loves is half a country away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMac has returned East to his wealthy family and their prestigious law firm, carrying wounds from the war that changed far more than his body. The comfortable world he once accepted without question no longer looks quite the same.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLouisa could remain safely where she is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInstead, with one suitcase and considerably more courage than she believes she possesses, she boards a bus and follows the possibility of a future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Louisa has never been very good at passing someone who needs help.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the time she reaches the city, she has already collected new friends and new worries. And although Mac would gladly solve every practical problem she has, Louisa is determined to build a life beside him-not one dependent upon him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe finds her own boarding house.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer own job.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer own friends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd eventually, meaningful work helping children whose families have been torn apart by war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMac loves watching her create a place for herself in his world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOthers are considerably less enthusiastic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause Louisa has an inconvenient habit of noticing people society would rather overlook.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a young woman from her workplace disappears and one of Louisa's neighbors is murdered, questions begin leading into places neither Louisa nor Mac expects.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA respectable employer is hiding something.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVulnerable women have vanished.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePowerful people have helped keep secrets buried.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd some of those secrets may reach directly into Mac's own family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe deeper they search, the more Mac is forced to confront the privilege and corruption that helped build the world he came from.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLouisa, meanwhile, discovers just how dangerous independence can be for a woman who refuses to remain silent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir love must survive differences in wealth, family expectations, old relationships, new responsibilities, and truths neither of them is prepared to uncover.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Louisa didn't cross the country to disappear into Mac's life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe came to build one of her own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd when danger finally comes for her, the quiet librarian everyone underestimates may prove that she never needed anyone to rescue her heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe only needed the courage to follow it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Quiet Independence is Book Three and the conclusion of The Home Fires Trilogy, a faith-filled World War II-era historical romance about love, justice, found family, wounded veterans, women's independence, and building a new life after the world has changed forever.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Noelle Jane Myers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798832626048\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/20\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 434\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.97d","brand":"Noelle Jane Myers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49168731963647,"sku":"9798832626048","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-quiet-independence-noelle-jane-myers-9798832626048","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}