Daughter of Destiny — Louise M. Gouge

Second choice. These words haunt Leah Smith as she agrees to marry Reverend Jonah Adams, the man she has loved since childhood, the man who first proposed to another woman. Placing God's will above her own heart's longing to be loved by Jonah, she accepts his businesslike proposal and sails with him to the distant South Pacific Island of her birth. Rejected. The word beats against Jonah Adams's mind like the violent waves of adversity that batter his every move. Why has God rejected his well-designed plan of missionary service?

A novella.