Good afternoon, readers.
We went after the end tables yesterday, requiring pretty much an all day trip. When most everything you do is at least an hour in either direction, to take care of as many things as you can while you're out. Bob treated me to dinner at Big Whiskey's. We've never been before. I'm more a Chinese Buffet kind of girl, but something different now and then isn't a bad thing either.
LOVE IS PATIENT is Book 1 in the Prairie Promise trilogy by K. P. Dawson.
Here's a bit about the book:
Promise...
"In her heart,
Kathryn knew this was the place she was meant to be. And she couldn’t wait to
prove it to her father, herself, and anyone else who might doubt it."
All her life, Kathryn has
known she didn't belong in the city where she was raised. So when she is
offered a teaching position in the small, frontier town of Promise, in the
Dakota Territory, she doesn't hesitate to accept. When she arrives, she knows
she's found the place she belongs.
However, she is faced
with many obstacles as she proves to her family, and herself, that she is cut
out for life out here. The biggest problem she comes up against is in the form
of a man who is determined to prove she won't make it until snowfall.
"Miss Kathryn Reeves
wouldn’t be here come the winter.
He guaranteed it."
Colt Hammond has no
desire to deal with another spoiled city girl who thinks living on the frontier
will be a fun little adventure. He did that once, and he won't make that
mistake ever again.
Just because she's living
on his property, and teaching at the little schoolhouse where his children will
be going, doesn't mean he has time to look after her until she's ready to admit
defeat and head back home.
What neither of them
counts on though, is how strong the promise of love can be between two people
who are destined to be together.
This story had a lot of things to love. For starters, the story is very well written with little things you might not notice that make a big impact.
For instance, Katherine standing up to her father and following her heart. Not for a man but for a dream she's held since a very young age. That takes a lot of courage. Remember, this was a time when women were supposed to get married and raise a family, not buck the 'system' and do something on their own.
Then there's the nuance of giving the reader a sense of place by giving a character we are all familiar with a walk on part. The man most of us know from our own literary and television childhood is only there for a paragraph, but that small part gives us a clear picture of the time and place Promise exits in the vast Dakota Territory in history.
I'm going to be reading the remaining 2 books in the series, and I hope you'll click on the Amazon link to read them as well.
I'm giving Love Is Patient:
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