Jane Kirkpatrick is the New York Times and CBA bestselling author of more than thirty books, including A Sweetness to the Soul, which won the prestigious Wrangler Award from the Western Heritage Center. Her works have been finalists for the Christy Award, Spur Award, Oregon Book Award, and Reader’s Choice awards, and have won the WILLA Literary Award, USABestBooks Award, and Carol Award for Historical Fiction. Many of her titles have been Book of the Month and Literary Guild selections, with more than 1.5 million books in print. You may read her work in more than fifty publications, including Decision, Private Pilot, and Daily Guideposts. Jane lives in Central Oregon with her husband, Jerry. Learn more at www.jkbooks.com and sign up for her newsletter Story Sparks.