Linda S. (fancyqltr) reviewed Calico Christmas at Dry Creek (Dry Creek Historical, Bk 1) (Steeple Hill Love Inspired Historical #19) on + 28 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
An excellent story about a woman named Elizabeth who had just lost her husband and baby girl to influenza.Expecting to die too she just waited out the arrival of death. But instead, God intervenes and sends her a gentleman looking for someone to help him take care of his young motherless stepsisters. The infant girl will die unless Elizabeth can help with feeding the child. To be able to live together without causing an uproar in the town,Elizabeth and Jake marry. They feel that they will stay together until the baby no longer needs a wet nurse and then they can get an annulment. Love finds a way of creeping slowly into their lives and so the story unfolds. This was a wonderful, heartwarming story.
Dawn B. (dawnm) reviewed Calico Christmas at Dry Creek (Dry Creek Historical, Bk 1) (Steeple Hill Love Inspired Historical #19) on + 32 more book reviews
Quick read - the author likes to add details
Alice B. reviewed Calico Christmas at Dry Creek (Dry Creek Historical, Bk 1) (Steeple Hill Love Inspired Historical #19) on + 3591 more book reviews
This is a great story and book. The Montana territory was the land of dreams for Elizabeth. Never having a family until she married Matthew and gave birth to Rose. When they died of influenza she wanted to die too, but she did not. Instead she lived and when Jake proposes Marriage to get a mom for his Indian nieces and one is an infant Mary who needs nursing she agrees. He tries to buy her a wedding ring but she refuses.They are married the same day by the preacher with 2 witnesses. Jake takes them back to his cabin. Elizabeth holds him to his promise of being married only in name and not sleeping together.Jake is impressed with Elizabeth's ability to love his nieces and make their cabin a home. When they send Spotted Fawn who is about 9 years old to school even though she is dressed just like them, the schoolkids are cruel to her and it divides the town and even the church. As partners Elizabeth and Jake work on breaking teh towns people of their prejudices, but it is Spotted Fawn anda towns boy who totally disarm their prejudices. Jake is such a good husband Elizabeth does not want to leave him, but by loving Jake is she being disloyal to her dead husband and Baby? This is an wonderful story of loss and love. Can Elizabeth love another family?
