Connie J. Cortright

Author Bio:

I’ve been a history buff all my life, reading biographies and history since grade school. Naturally, when I considered writing a story, my first thoughts turned to historical fiction. My novels are set in America’s Midwest and reflect my own Wisconsin farming roots.
My life has been the fulfillment of my girlhood dreams: becoming a Lutheran school teacher, marrying a pastor, and having lots of children. My life has taken me to both coasts (California and New Jersey) as I have followed my pastor-husband in his service to various churches with our four sons.
My husband and I now live in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. It’s been a long road home back to the Midwest where I started out.
I have always loved reading books (especially historical romances), and now enjoy writing my own stories, sprinkling bits of my experiences into them.

Guide Me Home (Grace Alone Series) (Volume 1)

What comes to mind when you hear the 1920s? Flappers? Jazz? Speakeasies? Bobbed haircuts? Cloche hats? Roaring Twenties? In 1926, this answer wasn’t so simple for a Christian school teacher. A young, naïve Emma Ehlke left her family’s Wisconsin farm and took up a new teaching post at a parochial…