Gwenda Great Smoky Mountains Bride
(2026)(Book 31 in the National Park Brides series)
A novel by Janice Cole Hopkins
The Smoky Mountains are her world until one stranger changes everything.
When surveyors arrive to map out land for the proposed national park, Gwenda meets Adam Wagoner, the outsider sent to assess the very ridges and hollows her people have fought to keep. She dislikes him on the spot. He’s too tied to the forces threatening everything she knows and loves.
But Adam turns out to be different than she expected. He keeps returning to the valley, listening to her father, helping neighbors, and learning mountain ways. Gwenda begins to see a man who respects the land as much as she does – a man who might even help her family negotiate for a fair future.
Still, the question haunts her:
Can she trust him when the stakes are her home, her heritage, and the only life she’s ever known?
Genre: Inspirational
When surveyors arrive to map out land for the proposed national park, Gwenda meets Adam Wagoner, the outsider sent to assess the very ridges and hollows her people have fought to keep. She dislikes him on the spot. He’s too tied to the forces threatening everything she knows and loves.
But Adam turns out to be different than she expected. He keeps returning to the valley, listening to her father, helping neighbors, and learning mountain ways. Gwenda begins to see a man who respects the land as much as she does – a man who might even help her family negotiate for a fair future.
Still, the question haunts her:
Can she trust him when the stakes are her home, her heritage, and the only life she’s ever known?
Genre: Inspirational