In the Company of Angels

In 1856, five hundred Mormon converts pull handcarts from Iowa toward the Rocky Mountains, leaving too late in the season. Eliza Gadd, the only non-believer in the company, watches her family suffer; nine-year-old Danish orphan Baline Mortensen serves others with unshakable faith; and Captain Willie wrestles with doubt as starvation, storms, and an early blizzard overtake them. Based on the true story of the Willie Handcart Company, this is a harrowing, faith-filled account of courage, sacrifice, and the price of coming to know God.

• Based on the true, devastating story of the 1856 Willie Handcart Company, told with novelistic power by a New York Times bestselling author.
• A skeptic's journey: the only non-Mormon in the company watches miracles she can't explain—and loses everything before she finds faith.
• From a master of storytelling (mentor to Stephenie Meyer and Brandon Sanderson) comes his most personal book, honoring his own wife's pioneer ancestors.
• Winner of the Whitney Award for Best Novel—a searing account of courage that 'may be unparalleled in the American West.'

“Their story is not a common tragedy. Theirs is a story of courage, hope, and heroism that may be unparalleled in the American West.”

Perfect for an adult Latter-day Saint reader who loves pioneer heritage stories and wants an emotionally powerful, historically grounded novel about the handcart companies and the trials of faith.