The Heart that Truly Loves

Millie turned angrily to Nicholas. "You entice innocent women to leave their homes and the beliefs of their fathers, to give up all that they have and go to some wretched place in the middle of nowhere—"Nicholas put his hand on her arm as if to stop her. "Miss Cooper, you do not understand." He was grieved."I understand! Far more than you realize."What Millicent Cooper understands is that the Thatcher family, with whom she has lived since her mother's death, has left the culture and refinement of Boston for the wild Missouri frontier. And it all is the result of Judith Thatcher's introduction to the Mormon faith by four missionaries—missionaries like Nicholas Todd.Rather than live among a people with strange, alien beliefs, Millie has chosen to return to her hometown. There she encounters Elder Nicholas Todd, who treats her with a tenderness that she has never experienced before. But his commitment to a religion that has disrupted,...