A Mess of Dreams by Mattis, Jessie

A Mess of Dreams

In spring of 1943, seventeen-year-old Lorene Stewart isn't looking for complications. She's content on her parents' Illinois...
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Author: Jessie Mattis
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A Mess of Dreams by Mattis, Jessie

A Mess of Dreams

$23.98

A Mess of Dreams

$23.98
Author: Jessie Mattis
Format: Paperback
Language: English

In spring of 1943, seventeen-year-old Lorene Stewart isn't looking for complications. She's content on her parents' Illinois farm, longing for the day she might travel beyond the cornfields of Potomac. But when Amos Alexander chooses her angel food cake at the town cakewalk, everything changes. For the first time since tragedy struck her family long ago, Lorene's heart stirs with hope. Yet as quickly as their romance sparks, a world torn apart by war threatens to extinguish it.

When Lorene befriends Dietrich, a German POW whose kindness and mysterious past captivate her, she begins to question everything. How can someone deemed "the enemy" side with all that's right and good? And what if Amos has inherited his father's deep prejudice, which he swore to resist? Amos seems to know what he wants, but when his father forbids him to court Lorene, it's unclear if he will honor his parents' wishes or pursue true love no matter the cost. Lorene must discern who she can trust if her dreams are to become reality. Her hope of a future spent changing the world with the right man at her side depends on it.

As another year comes and goes, Lorene seeks freedom from a burden of guilt she's carried since childhood while navigating the treacherous waters of first love and family loyalty. With a community divided by fear and suspicion, a forbidden friendship that challenges everything she thought she knew, and her own stubborn heart standing in the way, she has to determine if love is worth the risk-or if some messes are too hopeless to become dreams.



Author: Jessie Mattis
Publisher: Ashberry Lane
Published: 07/14/2026
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.78d
ISBN: 9798887091778

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