Angel Sister by Ann H. Gabhart is what I might classify as inspirational historical fiction. I always feel a little sheepish when I find out a book I chose runs along the inspirational line because I don't think I'd choose them if I had known that beforehand. Angel Sister had an excellent storyli...
I thoroughly enjoyed reading Words Spoken True so much that I can't wait to read more from this author! A free-thinking, spirited woman with a talent for writing in a man's world falling in love with her enemy surrounded in suspense and mystery as they work together to find "whodunit"...and it d...
When their father dies, Elizabeth and her younger siblings escape an abusive neighbor by taking refuge with the Shakers at Harmony Hill. The refuge turns into a painful prison when her sister fails to conform to the rules, Elizabeth's desire for a husband and family increase, and she falls in lov...
Small town Girl, tucked neatly into Rosey Corners is a lovely surprise. Though I promised to review it, American historicals, especially those set in war time, are not really my forte. Still, intrigued by the jacket, I picked it up and immersed myself in Kate and Jay’s story. Though the story unw...
Jocie is a on the edge of becoming a high school freshman, and getting her prayers answered. Jocie lives with David, her preacher father, and Aunt Love. When Jocie was only 6 years old her mother left in the middle of the night along with her sister Tabitha.So, Jocie has been praying for a...
Before Ann H. Gabhart's much-loved Shaker novels and her popular Angel Sister became bestsellers, she wrote three poignant novels centered on the lovable Jocie Brooke and her family, who live in small-town Kentucky. In Orchard of Hope it is 1964, and 14-year-old Jocie Brooke is about to have an u...
For Jocie Brooke, the summer of 1964 certainly was eventful, but it's nothing compared to what's coming to Hollyhill, Kentucky, and the Brooke family next. The past is coming to call, threatening to destroy the relationships that everyone thought were so strong. Two people--one thought to be gone...
They’d been gathered longer than a month moving from place to place while waiting for some orders to march to the north. The politicians and generals haggled while the men sat in camp sharpening tomahawks and knives and rubbing their guns until they knew every scratch and nick on the barrels. The...
He’d been acutely aware of her across the dance floor all evening even when his eyes weren’t on her. Others had come to engage him in conversation. He had taken Laura a glass of the punch, but he didn’t try to dance with his awkward bandaged arm. More than once he started to cross the room to see...
Ambrose’s last words of love to her. Such a good man. A man ruled by love. Of the Lord. Of her. Of country. He’d given his life for that country.She could no longer deny the truth of that as she had tried to do for so long. He was buried on a plantation in the South. Carlyn would never plant flow...
Gideon worked his way out to a spot close to the rail on the crowded decks where he could see the water flowing past them. He aimed to be where he could jump into the river if the Confederates surprised them with a cannonball to the broadsides. It didn’t matter that he’d never been that good of a...
He was walking blindly paying no attention to anything, just needing to get away from the pain of Victoria’s words. Why had he told her he would do whatever she wanted? He knew she didn’t want the same thing he wanted. He should have stepped back and kept hope for another day. Instead he had the ...
They didn’t talk about the Shakers or anything else. Words were scarce as hen’s teeth between them, but then that was hardly new. Even before Miss Mona passed on up to heaven, Lacey hadn’t shared many words with the preacher other than paying mind to his Bible readings and his sermons.Now it was ...
Mellie plopped down on the bench at the end of the bed and stared at Charlotte with wide eyes. “You go to those Shakers? That’s crazy talk.”“Aunt Tish doesn’t think so. She thinks it will work.”“Then my mammy’s done lost her senses too. Work is a good word for you to think on, Miss Lottie. The’ a...