What a sweet story of love blossoming in the unlikely season of winter. Small towns are so endearing when everyone takes care of everyone else and knows everyone's business. It is no different in Dwadlo, North Dakota. Mae Wilkey has been waiting for a proposal from her beau, Jake the up and coming new lawyer for 6 years. She already has this weighing on her mind not to mention the care of her younger brother who has a 14 year old body with a child's mind and now her aging neighbor, Pauline is declining by the minute and she just can't take anymore responsibility. She decides she needs to find kin to come and take care of Pauline and her accumulation of stray pets. She finds a name and address of one, Tom Curtis in the older woman's writing desk and takes the liberty of writing a letter to plea for her kin to come and take over care of their aging relation. When Tom receives the letter, he at first thinks it a joke from co-workers, but after a second letter his conscience gets the better of him, and being in a position to take a couple of days off from his management position with the railroad, hops a train and heads to North Dakota in the blistering winter even though he can't recall a living relative in that area.What he finds is a quaint town that he doesn't remember, an old woman he doesn't recognize, and an alluring postmistress that is already spoken for. What unfolds, is a love story that happens by chance when Mae takes off her rose covered glasses and sees that the man she has been waiting for for 6 years to propose isn't the man she has been waiting for at all, but Tom is the man that her heart yearns for. Two train derailments keep Tom longer in North Dakota than he expected along with his hearts desire to make Mae his wife and build a retirement home for the elderly who have no family. A second love story is involving a hog farmer and a widowed blacksmith and a ride on an elephant to settle their feelings. In Lori Copeland's latest release, the plot is set in the dead of winter in a tiny prairie town of Dwadlo, North Dakota - where the Chicago & North Western railroad steams through. Mae Wilkey, is the postmistress who also helps Hal Murphy in his general store and watches over her younger brother, Jeremy and elderly snuff-chewing neighbor, Pauline, who has a few lucid moments now and then. In Mae's quest to find a relative of Pauline's, she comes across a single piece of paper with the name Tom Curtis. Could Tom be the family, come visit and be Pauline's caretaker instead of Mae? When Tom finally arrives, racking his brain over this long lost aunt, it's because he can combine the trip with railroad business. Out of compassion he goes along with the nephew/relation idea. As he tries to wind things up in Dwadlo, events happen, including a train wreck, that cause him to stay put and eventually Tom begins to fall for the petite postmistress and the funny characters who live in and out of town.Note: I get a kick out of the quirky characters that Copeland creates. Hal,Lil, and Pauline especially gave me many belly laughs.
What do You think about Love Blooms In Winter (2012)?
This is a wonderful book full of surprises. I love the characters, especially Pauline. A good read.
—laureeeeena
I liked it very much! It was sweet and had the usual Christian message I love from Lori!
—kathyanne43
