A Heartbeat Away: Quilts of Love Series

A Heartbeat Away opens with a quilt that carries a hidden message capable of bridging a divide as deep as a nation at war. When a band of runaway slaves brings Union-loyal Beth Bumgartner a wounded Confederate soldier named Joe, the encounter pushes her to defy her pacifist parents and become a nurse during the Battle of Antietam. Her mother’s mysterious goodbye gift, a set of quilt blocks, brings comfort through hard days and lonely nights, and as Beth sews each block, she discovers a hidd...