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1) The refuge
Author
Series
Shaker novels volume 8
Language
English
Description
1849. Darcie and Walter Goodwin join a Shaker village to escape a cholera epidemic sweeping the area. It's meant to be a temporary stay, but Walter is killed in a riverboat accident. With no family and no money, Darcie has little choice but to stay with the Shakers. To complicate matters, she is expecting a baby conceived before she and her husband came to the Shaker village. Marital relationships are considered sinful in this celibate community,...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
If any place on God's earth was designed to help one heal, it is Meadowland. At her brother-in-law's Kentucky farm, Rose Meadows and her daughters can recover: the loss of her husband during the 1918 influenza epidemic; her stay at a sanatorium for tuberculosis; and the girls' experiences at an orphanage during her illness. Dirk Meadows keeps his heart closed: he was badly scarred by a fire and abandoned by the woman he loved. Will his visitors unlock...
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