Promised to Me (Coming to America)After a wait of over ten years, Karola Breit finally receives word from her betrothed in America to join him, but then she discovers that hes a recent widower with two children. Books four of the Coming to America Series. Dear Mother and Father, After all those years, I was certain Jakob Hirsch had forgotten me. Then came his proposal of marriage. With more impulse than wisdom, I crossed the ocean to begin a new life with him in Shadow Creek, Idaho.