The Seeker — Ann H. Gabhart

When well-laid plans go awry, can she still make her dreams come true?

Charlotte Vance is a young woman who knows what she wants.

But when the man she planned to marry joins the Shakers -- a religious group that does not allow marriage -- she is left dumbfounded. And when her father brings home a new wife who is young enough to be Charlotte's sister, it is more than she can bear. With the country -- and her own household -- on the brink of civil war, this pampered gentlewoman hatches a plan to avoid her new stepmother and win back her man by joining the Shaker community at Harmony Hill. Little does she know that this decision will lead her down a road of unforeseen consequences.

Ann H. Gabhart brings alive the strikingly different worlds of the Southern gentry, the simple Shakers, and the ravages of war in 1860s Kentucky to weave a touching story of love, freedom, and forgiveness.