Free Just as I Am by Kim Vogel Sawyer

did you choose me?” She sent a glance toward the stairway where Cassandra had disappeared, envisioning the girl’s feminine prettiness and dainty form. Did Robby care for her only out of pity? She had to know the truth. “I’ll never be petite or have long, flowing hair. I’ll never be”—she swallowed, pain stabbing anew—“pretty. Are you sure I’m enough?”
    A slow smile grew on his dear face. He lifted one hand and traced his finger along Daisy’s jaw. The gentle touch raised the sting of tears. “Silly girl … Haven’t you figured out by now I love you the same way God does—just the way you are? You don’t have to be shorter or have different hair or a prettier face for me to love you. I love you for you . I always have. I always will.”
    In that moment too many emotions for Daisy to sort rolled through her. Recognitions about God, about Robby, even about Ma and Pa Jonnson clamored for full examination, and she would examine each of them in prayer later. But for now she only wanted to verify one thing.
    She placed her hands lightly against Robby’s chest. At once he slipped his hands around her waist. Smiling into his face, she said tremulously, “Is it all right if I give up on those plans to go to California? I think I’d rather stay here in Sinclair. With you.”
    He chuckled, his eyes twinkling. “Daisy—my dear, silly, precious Daisy …” He planted a kiss on the end of her nose, then drew her snugly into his embrace. “I would never have let you go.”

A VAILABLE NOW !

    In the wake of her husband’s death, Alice Deaton will do anything to hold her family together. But with life handing her challenge after challenge, will her faith crack under the strain? Or will a kind stranger be able to offer refuge that Alice and her two small children so desperately need?
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C AN ONE WOMAN ’ S FIGHT for the POOR and DESTITUTE LEAD to the LOVE SHE HAS NEVER KNOWN ?

    In What Once Was Lost , Kim Vogel Sawyer captivates readers with a hopeful romance set in a rural Kansas community in the late 1800s where a Mennonite woman and a bitter mill owner find that debilitating loneliness melts away through ministering to the needs of those around them.
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C OMING SOON !

    Historical Christian Romance favorite Kim Vogel Sawyer brings to life the interworkings of a 1906 chocolate factory and one young crusader’s passionate vision to see child workers free of factory work. Will it put her at odds with her chance at true love?
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