This was a cute idea but was not executed well. The writing was all over the place with changing POV in the middle of a page and jumping around from one place to the next. The story just didn't flow well. The characters where interesting, but needed more depth. There was an ok amount of prayer an...
Every now and then a story comes along that simply is a pleasure to read and demands no deep thinking or serious reflection. Just a simple tale of two different people, both wanting to gain their own agenda and yet indirectly both heading in the same direction. Clara and Doreen have been abando...
This book had quite an intriguing premise -- four women decide to place an ad for husbands in order to revive a dead mining town and turn it into a sawmill town. Their good intentions did not account for the reality of the kind of men who would be showing up for such a curious promise, and the li...
Gavin Miller is now ready to ask Miss Marguerite Chandler to come to Buttonwood, Nebraska and marry him so he sends his proposal to her. Gavin Miller forgot that there are two Marguerite Chandlers though, they are cousins and both childhood friends of Gavin's, so when the proposal is received and...
TALL,DARK,AND DETERMINED by Kelly Eileen Hake is an interesting inspirational historical romance set in Hope Falls. It is book 2 of the "Husbands For Hire",while it can be read as a stand alone, you really need to read book 1 first in order to understand the story better. See "Rugged and Relentle...
Grace Willard finds herself guardian of her cousin's children following his and his wife's death. A ranch hand tempts her with hopes of a family and home. Will it happen?
Lovejoy was sixteen, so he reckoned he could get a bride price and not have to feed her anymore.”Aghast, Dan stared at Lovejoy’s sister.“Pa ran—runs—a bootleg still. It broke down, and he needed the copper tubing to make it work again. That and four pounds of sugar. He traded his firstborn daught...
The bottom floor of the mill, built into the side of a man-made hill alongside the millpond, was designed to hold the gear housings and insulate against moisture.He’d chosen to set up his temporary residence down here for practical purposes, not comfort. Customers saw the main floor and the stora...
Maybe a few glances darted in the other direction, toward the Speck seats, but Lucinda felt the scrutiny of her neighbors as though pinpricks of fire broke out all over her body. Like a rash.Of course they stared. Everyone in town knew about the wedding. At least, they knew there’d been one. Pars...
“I done brought you two roast chickens.” Silk Trevor pointed to where she’d laid them out on the table. “Nice thang is, they cain be jist as good et cold.” “Thankee, Silk.” Miz Willow rocked contentedly in her chair. “We brung salad filled with vegetables we grew!” Young Lark Cleary plunked the b...
Jess plunked down the bucket of milk she’d fetched from the springhouse and addressed her question to the room at large. A room much fuller than it had been when she’d left it a few minutes ago. Something struck her as strange, a sort of untraceable tension that told her someone was up to somethi...
Never mind the distance. Never mind the noise. Never mind the dirt and debris weighing the air. Stew. Mike’s stomach rumbled after the aroma winding its way up the mountain. The few cold biscuits he’d eaten early in the morning didn’t even make a decent memory now. The men around him paused in ap...