Wake the Dawn, Lauraine Snelling
Wake the Dawn, Lauraine Snelling
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Wake the Dawn
A Novel

Author: Lauraine Snelling

Narrator: Kristin Kalbli

Unabridged: 9 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Faith Words

Published: 08/20/2013


Synopsis

National bestselling author Lauraine Snelling brings a small mountain town to thrilling life when a natural disaster threatens to destroy lives.

U.S. Border Patrol agent Ben James' life is in tatters. A tragic accident stole the love of his life and he never finished grieving. Turning to the bottle for support, he lost sight of what was important. While making his last patrol run before a storm rolls in, Ben's canine partner Bo finds an abandoned baby hidden in the woods. As Ben rushes the child to the only clinic in the area, the storm strikes with unexpected fury.

Esther Hanson runs a second-rate clinic in the small community of Pineville, Minnesota, on the Canadian border. Though she has fought for years to get the equipment she needs, the town refuses to approve the funding. When the unprecedented storm ravishes the area, cutting them off from all outside help, Esther struggles to help her patients without giving in to overwhelming emotions. The event triggers a long-suppressed memory, and Esther must come face to face with the reality of her past and learn to forgive herself.

Brought together by the life of a child, Ben and Esther become each other's reason to change.

About Lauraine Snelling

Lauraine Snelling is the award-winning author of over fifty books, including Blessing in Disguise, Song of Laughter, and Believing the Dream. She won a Silver Angel Award for An Untamed Land and a Romance Writers of America Golden Heart for Song of Laughter. She also writes for a wide range of magazines and teaches at writers' conferences across the country. Lauraine lives in California.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Trinity on August 22, 2013

I FINISHED THIS WONDERFUL BOOK BACK IN JUNE, BUT COULDN'T REVIEW IT UNTIL IT CAME OUT THIS WEEK!!!! Any book by Lauraine Snelling is fantastic and a pleasure to read, but this one Wake the Dawn is just intriguing to read and review. The characters are so real and full of life and they become so very......more

Goodreads review by Christine on October 26, 2023

"As far as she could tell, she'd only been gone five minutes or so. Had her watch stopped or something?" The medical scene is very raw in this story, but the evident voice is calling out with a real ballad of sensitivity.......more

Goodreads review by Carol on April 16, 2025

Ben James, a border patrol agent, finds an abandoned baby or his canine partner does, and the both fall in love with the new born. Esther Hanen a PA in a second rate clinic in rural Minnesota, who has been trying for years to get the town to build a bigger and better equipped clinic that can handle......more

Goodreads review by Kathleen (Kat) on June 19, 2014

When a hurricane unleashes its deadly force upon the small town of Pineville, Minnesota, the small medical clinic run by Physician's Assistant Esther Hansen. Without adequate medical supplies or personnel necessary to handle the number of patients arriving as the rains and winds grow in intensity an......more

Goodreads review by Catherine on February 18, 2015

I've greatly enjoyed Lauraine Snelling's historical works, so I thought I'd like to see how she handles contemporary. Sadly, I was not impressed. I never got into the characters, Esther and Ben. Esther, plagued with PTSD, at least was more believable than Ben deciding in two seconds that he was going......more


Quotes

"Snelling (One Perfect Day) continues to draw fans with her stellar storytelling skills. This time she offers a look at smalltown medical care in a tale that blends healing, love, and a town's recovery. . .Snelling's description of events at the small clinic during the storm is not to be missed."
Publisher's Weekly

"Snelling's fast-paced novel has characters who seek help in the wrong places. It takes a raging storm for them to see that the help they needed was right in front of them the whole time. This is a strong, believable story."—RT Book Reviews, ****

"Lauraine Snelling's newest novel will keep you turning pages and not wanting to put the book down.. . .Wake The Dawn is a guaranteed good read for any fiction lover."—Cristel Phelps, reviewer, Retailers and Resources Magazine

"Snelling writes about the foibles of human nature with keen insight and sweet honesty."—National Church Library Association