Elements of this book that I liked:
- semi-mail order bride,
- not promised before hand,
- teaching and learning,
- a bit of mystery – and cattle rustlers,
- salvation,
- God’s love,
- reaping what you sow,
- how hard the wives of ranchers worked,
- lesson on not lumping a group of people into the same category.
It was easy to follow and relaxing to read without being boring. There were a couple unexpected twists that helped with that. The characters were real and I related to aspects of each one of them – except the villian.
Here is the backcover copy:
Dowryless and desperate, Tressa Neill applies to the inaugural class of Wyatt Herdsman School in Barnett, Kansas, in 1888. The school’s one-of-a-kind program teaches young women from the East the skills needed to become a rancher–or the wife of one.
Shy and small for her twenty-two years, Tressa is convinced she’ll never have what it takes to survive Hattie Wyatt’s hands-on instruction in skills such as milking a cow, branding a calf, riding a horse, and cooking up a mess of grub for hungry ranch hands. But what other options does she have?
Abel Samms wants nothing to do with the group of potential brides his neighbor brought to town. He was smitten with an eastern girl once–and he got his heart broken. But there’s something about quiet Tressa and her bumbling ways that makes him take notice.
When Tressa’s life is endangered, will Abel risk his own life–and his heart–to help this eastern girl?
You can find more information at the author’s site. You can read the first chapter at Where the Story Begins. Published by Bethany House.
This book was sent to me through Christian Fiction Blog Alliance for the book tour. The words are fully my own and I have no affiliate links in this post.
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