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Eighteen-year-old Astrid Bjorklund has always dreamed of becoming a doctor. Will she have to give up love to pursue her dream?

In A Measure of Mercy by acclaimed author Lauraine Snelling, 18-year-old Astrid Bjorklund's opportunity for formal medical study in Chicago doesn't arrive until shortly after her heartthrob Joshua Landseer returns to Blessing, North Dakota. They agree to exchange letters while she's in Chicago. And, for a time, love blossoms-until the letters from Joshua stop coming. Convinced he no longer loves her, Astrid makes an impetuous and heart-wrenching decision.

In No Distance Too Far, Astrid Bjorklund enrolls in a missionary training school, hoping to use her medical skills in some remote African outpost. But when she's called home to Blessing, Astrid learns of a deadly measles outbreak on a nearby Indian reservation. Feeling constrained to help, she wonders if her mission field might be much closer than she ever imagined.

Eighteen-year-old Astrid Bjorklund has always dreamed of becoming a doctor. Will she have to give up love to pursue her dream?

In this series finale by Lauraine Snelling, Astrid Bjorklund is trying to stop the epidemic ravaging South Dakota's Red Bud Indian Reservation. Tribal elders remain suspicious of her until some begin to recover. Although Joshua Landsverk longs to fix his broken relationship with Astrid, he opposes her present work but won't tell her why. Yet when a surprising act of kindness brings healing to the painful wrong inflicted years ago, will it be enough to rekindle their love?