A Life So True

A secret arson plot threatens a new romance and the future of two Minneapolis families.

Evelyn Turner is determined to work at her physician father’s side as he opens a hospital for Minneapolis’s poor. But when nursing makes her physically ill, she faces an impossible choice between the promises she has made and her own limitations.

Maxwell Garrison is helping manage his father’s investments through the financial crisis of 1893, with a special interest in the sawmill businesses. At a Turner family fundraiser, he is horrified when he overhears his father and other mill owners plotting arson and insurance fraud.

When Evie and Max meet at the same gathering, a connection sparks. As their interest in each other grows, they confide their secrets and agree to guard each other’s trust.

Then a suspicious and devastating fire sets Minneapolis ablaze, and they fear the worst. Even amid the ashes of deception, can they build a life together?