The Homesteaders: Following a Dream

The Homesteaders: Following a Dream is the first in a series of books that follows Clara Pennington from her childhood, the only child of a widowed father, through her struggles to achieve her life's dream of becoming a physician, like her father. She witnesses the joys and heartbreaks of being a doctor, right along side him. She finds, as she begins the path to achieving her goal, she has only two people on earth who believe in her...her father, and her lifelong best friend, Thad. Along the way, she meets another, and everything in her world changes. The reader gets the sense, and accurately so, that her life's work and the adventure and unexpected that lie ahead for this young woman are just beginning. And in a time when women were usually denied the opportunity to be all that they desired, if those desires stretched the bounds of wife and mother, and keeper of the home fires, Clara found a way, paved a way, to have it all... love, family, and her life's work.