A CBA Bestseller Eighteen-year-old Ingeborg Strand feels she's destined to be an old maid, until she meets a university student from Oslo and strong feelings develop. But tragedy strikes, and the future looks bleaker than ever. Ingeborg's mother suggests that she leave Norway to start afresh in America. But how, alone and with so little money? Then Ingeborg meets Roald Bjorklund, a widower with a young son who is planning to go to America. Is he the answer to her prayers?