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The Wishing Star / Star Light, Star Bright / Morning Star (Starlight, Bks 1-3)
The Wishing Star / Star Light Star Bright / Morning Star - Starlight, Bks 1-3 Author:Marian Wells Young Jenny Timmons longs for a way out of the poverty surrounding her on her family's ragged farm. Curious and quick-minded, she reaches out for something different, something forbidden: her father's mysterious green-covered book. But will she find truth? Or does the path she's taking lead only to growing darkness? — Powerfully joining history a... more »nd fiction, Marian Wells' bestselling Starlight Trilogy chronicles one young woman's desperate search for spiritual truth amid the religious turmoil of nineteenth-century America.
The Wishing Star opens in backwater New York in 1825, where twelve-year-old Jenny struggles to escape her abusive home. When her adored older brother falls in with a handsome stranger named Joseph Smith, Jenny is fascinated. Joseph claims to have uncovered an ancient book that promises secret knowledge and unlimited power. Could this be the way out?
In Star Light, Star Bright, Jenny's search for truth and the ability to control her own destiny continues even into her marriage to the young lawyer, Mark Cartwright. Her happiness and security with Mark are often shadowed by dark thoughts and frightening memories. The very beliefs which seemed to have brought them together are now threatening to pull them apart.
Out of her dark childhood memories, her fascination with the spirit world, and her conversion to Mormonism, Jenny has been slowly growing but still searching. In Morning Star, her husband Mark faces his own painful spiritual journey and discovers the true way of faith. Now Jenny must make the ultimate choice: follow Mark or stay with Joseph Smith and his followers?
Glittering with engrossing characters and historically accurate settings, The Starlight Trilogy -- an unforgettable epic of light and darkness--compellingly points the way to the true "Morning Star."« less