I was raised in a small town of 1,200 residents 75 miles south of St. Louis. Bismarck’s biggest industry was the Ozark Oak Flooring Company, but it was also a part of the Lead Belt, now called the (harmless) Mineral Area. Many of the townsmen worked in the mines or on the railroad but, my father was a minister. There were five churches and two funeral parlors in town. One of them also served as the emergency dispatch center. My first job was there. I sat in a room, next to the viewing parlor where the corpse would be and answered calls for the fire and ambulance. At 15, I was a receptionist in a doctor’s office. I I could type and take shorthand and I wasn’t afraid of the sight of blood.
Hearts of Hope is a deeply intimate, emotionally layered historical novel that explores what it means to love someone through mental illness, grief, and the quiet wars waged inside a home. The story follows Nathan Thaddeus Wallace — a faithful, working-class bread truck driver — as he navigates the complexities of a post-war American life filled with simple routines, unspeakable loss, and a marriage unraveling under the weight of trauma. As he works tirelessly to provide stability for his wife Carly and daughter Denise, he clings to a dream of one day owning a home in the country — a dream that keeps him afloat, even when everything else threatens to drown him. When Nathan takes on a new rural route, he encounters the elegance and quiet strength of Correll Farrington, a horsewoman whose life contrasts sharply with his own. As these two worlds gently touch, a story of emotional conflict, loyalty, and the human need to be seen unfolds. A novel that balances sorrow with serenity, hardship with hope, Hearts of Hope is a testament to quiet heroism, the long road of healing, and the fragile threads that hold families together.
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