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Lily is a young Southern girl in the years before the Civil
War. Her mother was killed in a riverboat accident, and her father abandoned
Lily and her sisters. After the
accident, lily and her sisters lived with her grandparents, but when her
grandfather dies, her aunt and uncle pressure her to marry a widowerer almost
twenty years her senior. Aft
asking for her dowry money from her grandmother, she purchases half of a
riverboat and moves in with her sisters, much to the dismay of the other owner,
a riverboat gambler. Negotiating agreements with her parter, her sisters, and
the river as well as villains, keeps Lily almost too busy to fall in love and
find the path the Lord has chosen for her.
The story is rich with the south and the problems facing the
people of the day. Lily's story is
fun to read and affirming, especially for the women who has to choose to be
alone rather than become unequally yoked. As Lilly attempts to make solid
choices in her life, the application of passages of the Bible lift up the
Christian reader and help to strengthen one’s choices today. I would recommend
this for readers who enjoy historical romances with heroines who look to the
Lord for their dtrength. This one is definitely appealing to the heart.
Received Galley from NetGalley.com
Published by Barbour Publishing, Inc. on June 1, 2012.
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