A Promise for Spring
By Kim Vogel Sawyer
Bethany House
© 2009
Keeping a Promise Sometimes Presents Challenges Never
Expected
That’s what English born Emmaline Bradford discovers. Her
absent fiancée has finally sent for her after being in America for
five years. At seventeen, Geoffrey seemed the perfect
husband. How she adored him. But he left her to make his
fortune in America. Her only communication from him has been
through her father, a hard unfeeling man. Now Geoffrey has
sent for her with full expectation of a dowry and a wedding. But
how can she marry a man who has become a virtual stranger?
Geoffrey still loves his English sweetheart. He wants her to
share his ranch and be the wife he has long waited for. To
Geoffrey’s bitter disappointment, the young girl who once
adored being in his presence, has become a grown woman who
despises him. Rather than force her into a marriage she has so
clearly shown she doesn’t want, Geoffrey asks her to live at the
ranch until spring. To keep propriety, he bunks in with his ranch
hands. If she still resents the idea of marriage, he will help her
return to England and free her from any promise to him.
This couple is pitted against nature's tempers and the
harshness of ranch life. Through the help of a neighbor and her
husband, former slaves, Emmaline begins to understand that
God uses the most peculiar of circumstances to foster His will.
Geoffrey, too, must rediscover an abandoned faith even more
severely tested as the story unfolds.
Kim Sawyer has a gift to infuse the heart of history for the
reader. Although, the dialogue is formal, it is true to the
character and the period in which this story takes place. The
plot is a definite page turner. This book is more than a
worthwhile read, it is an experience.
Review by
Linda Rondeau
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