The Lost Heiress (Ladies of the Manor, #1)

by Roseanna M. White

He had found Brook on one of those unsupervised sprees. She had been but a sprite of a girl then, only five to his twelve, but the mischief in her eyes had intrigued him.

“Some creatures have a harder time obeying the standards put before them. But if you can inspire them to, they will outdo all the rest. You must simply learn their language.”

“But God does not just instruct us to forgive—He instructs us to trust. To trust that, even though life hurts us, He will take care of us. That even if we lose the ones we love, He will sustain us through it.”