02480cam a2200397 4500 539928274 TxAuBib 20211202120000.0 210621s2021||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2021029668 9781432892203 1432892207 (OCoLC)1257313483 TxAuBib Peterson, Tracie. Forever my own / Tracie Peterson. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2021. ℗2021. 419 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. Ladies of the Lake ; 2 "In 1871, Kirstin Hallberg arrives in Duluth, Minnesota, to find the city council intent on building a canal and ensuring the city's rise to greatness. She's come to care for her elderly grandmother Lena Segerson only to discover Lena very full of life and full of secrets. For when Kirstin opens their front door one day, she finds the brother she long thought dead on the other side. Domar begs his sister to say nothing to their parents, viewing their grief as payment for falsely accusing him of bad behavior years prior and driving him from their Swedish village. Caught between her brother's wishes and the chance to ease her family's pain, Kirstin doesn't know which decision is right.When Domar's friend Ilian is hurt in an accident, Kirstin and her grandmother volunteer to care for him. Ilian struggles with his own bitterness toward his estranged father, heightened by his injured leg. He can now never return to logging, but the only other thing he really knows and enjoys is making Mackinaw boats--but that would force him to seek his father's help. As he recovers, a natural attraction starts between Ilian and Kirstin, but both are dealing with problems without easy answers. With no clear way forward, can love ever thriveand the past be forgiven?"-- Provided by publisher. 20211202. Large type books. Swedes United States Fiction. Brothers and sisters Fiction. Grandmothers Fiction. Secrecy Fiction. Large type books. Christian fiction. Love Stories. Duluth (Minn.) Fiction. Historical fiction. Ladies of the Lake ; 2. MULAP