Spinster librarian travels to Ohio rescue her niece and nephew in 1891
Author Self-Published
November 2011
On Sale: November 16, 2011
Featuring: Jacob Butler; Olive Wilkins
265 pages ISBN: 692274537 EAN: 9780692274538 Kindle: B00ILILHKU Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
1891 . . . Spinster librarian, Olive Wilkins, is shocked to learn of her brotherβs violent death at a saloon gaming table and her sister-in-lawβs subsequent murder, traveling far from her staid life to rescue her niece and nephew, now orphans. She arrives to find the circumstances of her brotherβs life deplorable and her long held beliefs of family and tradition, shaken.
Accustomed to the sophistication of Philadelphia, Olive arrives in Spencer, Ohio, a rough and tumble world she is not familiar with, facing two traumatized children. Her niece and nephew, Mary and John, have been living with a neighboring farmer, widower Jacob Butler, the father of three young children of his own and a man still in pain from the recent loss of his wife.
Real danger threatens Olive and Mary and John while Jacob and his own brood battle the day-to-day struggles for survival. Will Olive and Jacob find the strength to fight their battles alone or together? Will love conquer the bitterness of loss and broken dreams?
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