The first person she meets is Private Clay Paxton, who is determined to make it as an Army Ranger. She hopes to be able to research her origins and find out the fate of her twin baby sisters. (Feb.)Īlone in the world, Leah Jones arrives at Camp Forrest, Tennessee, in June 1943 to work in the Army Training Camp library. This ruminative, slow-burning romance is Sundin's best yet. Clay and Leah are the embodiment of courage and fortitude as they find hope in faith, selflessness, and forgiveness. As Clay fights and Leah convalesces, their relationship strengthens through letters, and they realize God's plan may not have been what they were expecting. When Clay saves Leah's life during an assault, their bond deepens, and they decide to marry before Clay heads to Europe. He meets and takes a liking to courteous Leah Jones, who works at a nearby orphanage library, is an orphan herself, and was abandoned by her uncaring adoptive family.

Betrayed by his two half-brothers, who stole his savings, he believes dying in combat could give meaning to his life. Clay Paxton trains with the Army Rangers and is driven by a recurring dream of his death on the battlefield. In Camp Forrest, Tenn., just before D-Day, Pvt.

Sundin (Through Waters Deep) crafts an unusual love story in the third installment of the Sunrise at Normandy series. But can a love strong enough to overcome death grow between them before Clay's recurring dream comes true? When he ships out to train in England for D-day, their letters bind them together over the distance.

After Clay saves Leah's life from a brutal attack, he saves her virtue with a marriage of convenience. Leah Jones works as a librarian at Camp Forrest, longing to rise above her orphanage upbringing and belong to the community, even as she uses her spare time to search for her real family - the baby sisters she was separated from so long ago. With his future stolen by his brothers' betrayal, Clay has only one thing to live for - fulfilling the recurring dream of his death. Will D-day - and a foreboding dream - tear them apart? In 1943, Private Clay Paxton trains hard with the US Army Rangers at Camp Forrest, Tennessee, determined to do his best in the upcoming Allied invasion of France. When an Army Ranger and a librarian are bound together by a marriage of convenience, neither suspects it might lead to love.

The Land Beneath Us by Sarah Sundin