Vol. 1 The Field Is White | Vol. 2 The Gathering | Vol. 3 The Nauvoo Years | Vol. 4 The Mormon Battalion | Vol. 5 The Journey Home
Bobby is a hard-headed egotistical British fighter, who has withdrawn from religion altogether. Hannah tries every way she can think of to change his ways, even opposing his career in pugilism. Daniel jumps at the chance to be heavily involved with John Benbow and Thomas Kington in their new church, seen as a radical move by his mother. Elizabeth supports Daniel, but is Bobby's biggest fan in the boxing world. After all, he is her brother.
Robert, a diehard Anglican, opposes a marriage between his son, Bobby, and Hannah. So does Hannah's father, a devoted Methodist. Daniel's mother, a devout Quaker, doesn't want Daniel to marry Elizabeth, Robert's daughter.
When Wilford Woodruff, an apostle, arrives in England, he is astonished to hear the Lord's voice direct him to go south. He had been preaching in an area called the Potteries, but the Spirit had prepared a special group of people to hear the gospel-six hundred members of a religious organization called the United Brethren. As Elder Woodruff begins his work there, he not only finds Benbow and Kington, but men and women mostly in their late twenties and early thirties searching for light and truth.
Bobby the butcher, Hannah the milkmaid, Daniel the carpenter, and Elizabeth - Bobby's sister - the four main characters of the book, find their lives getting more complicated day by day as they try to escape the boredom of lower middleclass life and the staid religions of their parents.
The greatest missionary story in the history of the modern church.





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 This unique historical novel weaves the reader through the romance between the two couples, the conflict it creates with their parents, their search for their own identities and religion, and their ultimate involvement with Elder Woodruff and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Darryl Harris has been a magazine publisher for more than thirty years. He currently serves as a bishop at BYU-Idaho, and previously presided over the Korea Seoul Mission. He lives in Idaho Falls, ID.
"The historical accuracy is uncanny. An amazing tale of how four young people meet, fall in love, deal with the religion and biases of their parents, and then later place their lives in an organization that meets head on with an apostle of the Lord. The result, of course, is true conversion."
-Ben Bloxham, PhD. English History
Brigham Young University professor, retired
"Kept me interested the whole way-the mark of a good book! I especially enjoyed your portrayal of the characters, the history that it taught me, and the descriptive words. Wow! What a missionary Wilford Woodruff must have been!"
-Nola Duncan
West Jordan, Utah