Althea Winsloe is a widow with a young son, good farm land and 4 of the best hunting dogs in the area. Her family and community are pressuring her to remarry and she is dead set against it. She was the spare relative as a child shuffled from relative to relative when her widower father remarried and moved away and she just wants to make her own decisions and take care of herself and her farm. Only one problem, winter is coming she does not have meat or other provisions to last the winter and she had not put in a crop to harvest. She makes the decision to sell the hunting dogs to earn some money.
Jesse Best was deprived of oxygen at birth and is challenged mentally and is called by the community Simple Jess. He is a good man and a hard worker. He wants one of the dogs that Althea is selling so he goes to her and offers all the money he has, a quarter, to buy a dog. Althea tells him that he can work for her to earn the dogs and Jesse starts laying in meat and other provisions so Althea and her son can winter in safety with food and fuel.
The community is determined to have Althea married and they hold a kangaroo court where it is decreed that she must marry on Christmas Day (only 3 weeks away).
The book has strong secondary characters who factor into Althea and Jesse's lives as she struggles to decide who to marry. I was able to see the leaning of her heart but the author keeps the true outcome until the end of the book. Not just for Althea and Jesse but for several of the secondary characters.
If you have ever read a LaVyrle Spencer book this has a very similar style. Heartwarming.
Jesse Best was deprived of oxygen at birth and is challenged mentally and is called by the community Simple Jess. He is a good man and a hard worker. He wants one of the dogs that Althea is selling so he goes to her and offers all the money he has, a quarter, to buy a dog. Althea tells him that he can work for her to earn the dogs and Jesse starts laying in meat and other provisions so Althea and her son can winter in safety with food and fuel.
The community is determined to have Althea married and they hold a kangaroo court where it is decreed that she must marry on Christmas Day (only 3 weeks away).
The book has strong secondary characters who factor into Althea and Jesse's lives as she struggles to decide who to marry. I was able to see the leaning of her heart but the author keeps the true outcome until the end of the book. Not just for Althea and Jesse but for several of the secondary characters.
If you have ever read a LaVyrle Spencer book this has a very similar style. Heartwarming.
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