Safe in the Arms of God: The Nutt/Landers Family Chronicles, Volume I (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781087909080)

A Nation divided... Two families face tragedy and an uncertain future as tensions rise in the years approaching the American Civil War. This is the story of the building of a legacy in the Texas wilderness... a legacy built on a foundation forged from Faith and Love. The town of Granbury, Texas has twice been voted America's best historic small town. This is the story of its beginnings- told through the stories of two of its founding families. Jesse Nutt and Elizabeth Landers had been married less than a year when he and his brother Jacob are blinded in horrific incident spawned by the turmoil that swept our Nation in the tumultuous years prior to the war that threatened to sever the ties that bound the United States into one Union. In the aftermath of this personal tragedy, the young people and their families struggle to find a way forward as their world crumbles around them. Determined to make a life for themselves and those they love, the two families form an alliance founded in their strong faith in God and the future of the Nation they love, and travel westward to the Texas wilderness as pioneers. They settle in a new land fed by the waters of a great river named by the Spanish explorers El Rio de los Brazos de Dios, the River of the Arms of God, hoping to find both a future and a refuge "Safe in the Arms of God".

Author: Melinda Jo Ray
ISBN-10: 1087909082
ISBN-13: 9781087909080
Publisher: Blue Topaz Publications
Language: English
Published: 12/04/2020
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d