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Available together for the first time, Mission City Press ispleased to offer this wonderful literary collection thatcontains the first novel in each of the four books in the A Lifeof Faith historical fiction series for girls ages ten to fourteen.Based on and adapted from bestselling nineteenth-centurystories and characters created by Martha Finley, thesetimeless stories of faith, love, and family---with updatedlanguage and enhanced features such as fascinating historicalforewords---will delight, captivate, and inspire a newgeneration of readers.Elsie's Endless Wait: A lonely, motherless, eight-year-oldSouthern heiress growing up in the 1840s longs for the loveof her absent father and clings to her deep faith in God tosustain her.Millie's Unsettled Season: A lively and confident twelveyear-old city girl living in Ohio in the 1830s must learn totrust the Lord as her comfortable life is turned upside downby her family's sudden move to the wild Indiana frontier.Violet's Hidden Doubts: A creative and sensitive fourteenyear-old Christian girl living in the late 1870s learns thatgrowing up brings new feelings, new questions, and newchallenges to her faith.Laylie's Daring Quest: Against impossible odds, a brave and intelligent seven-year-old slave girl and her fifteen-yearoldbrother secretly escape their Southern plantation to flee north, discovering not just physical freedom but alsospiritual freedom in Christ.