Harry & Grace: A Dakota Love Story

In the spring of 1909, seeking adventure, twenty-one-year-old Harry Carlsen joins a traveling carnival passing through his hometown in Iowa. As the carnival meanders northward, Harry’s eyes are opened to far more than how to operate and maintain a merry-go-round. When they land in a small town in North Dakota, Harry visits a local café where he is captivated by a beautiful waitress named Grace.

At nineteen, Grace Schmidt knows her own mind. She also possesses a dark secret . . . a secret she believes shatters any hope for a family and a joy-filled life. Because of her past trauma, Grace is determined never to marry. However, through Harry’s quest to persuade her otherwise, Grace learns the meaning of patience, persistence and love.

Harry’s impetuous choices change the course of their lives over and over again—culminating in one final, fateful decision. Sprinkled with magic, Harry and Grace is an enchanting historical fiction tale filled with happiness and tragedy, tenderness and sorrow, all set against the harsh realities of life on the North Dakota prairie in the early twentieth century.