Love Comes Softly · Book 4
Love's Abiding Joy
- Published
- 1 January 1983
- Pages
- 217
- ISBN-13
- 9780871234018
- Type
- novel
About this book
Love's Abiding Joy, written by Janette Oke, is the fourth book in the Love Comes Softly series, released in 1983. It runs just 217 pages, the shortest entry in the series, and marks the point where the focus begins shifting from Marty and Clark to their children.
Its place in Love Comes Softly
Love's Abiding Joy is book 4 in the Love Comes Softly series. It follows Love's Long Journey. It is followed by Love's Unending Legacy. See the full Love Comes Softly reading order.
Love Comes Softly is the series that launched Janette Oke's career and, with it, the modern inspirational prairie-romance genre. It opens with young widow Marty Davis, stranded and pregnant on the 1860s American frontier after her husband dies in a wagon accident, entering a marriage of convenience with widowed farmer Clark Davis so that each can survive a winter neither could face alone. What begins as a practical arrangement becomes, over the following volumes, a lifelong love story, and the series widens…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780871234018