Wings of a Dream

By Anne Mateer

Description:

While war rages in Europe, Rebekah Hendricks dreams of life far beyond the family farm in Oklahoma. And when a telegram arrives in October of 1918, she believes God has provided her way of escape. After all, caring for her estranged Aunt Adabelle means living closer to dashing aviator Arthur Samson in Dallas, well within reach of the exciting, modern life she desires. Rebekah travels to Texas, seeing the circumstances at God’s final kiss of approval to all her plans.

But she doesn’t anticipate the devastation of the Spanish Flu. Or four motherless children grabbing hold of her heart. When true love turns sour and a stranger causes her to long for the life she intends to leave behind, will Rebekah allow God to rearrange her dreams?

Why the author wrote this book:

I started this book based on my great-grandmother's situation during the Influenza Epidemic of 1918. But the actual story itself--Rebekah's story--was birthed out of my need to communicate life and spiritual truth to my daughter as she left for college, yearning for the life that would be her own.