Milford College Series #1
Author Self-Published
August 2014
On Sale: August 7, 2014
Featuring: Amanda Stewart
266 pages ISBN: 1500851914 EAN: 9781500851910 Kindle: B00M77K09U Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
1866 β Oberlin, Ohio Devastated by her fatherβs death days after her triumphant graduation from Oberlin College, Amanda Stewart is all alone in the world. Her fatherβs unscrupulous business partner offers her an indecent proposal to earn a living. Instead, to fulfill a promise she made to her father, she resolves to start a school to educate and uplift their race. Sorting through her fatherβs papers, she discovers he had carried on a mysterious correspondence with a plantation in Milford, Georgia. She determines to start her teaching work with the formerly enslaved. However, when she arrives, the mayor tells her to leave. Thereβs no where for her to go.
Virgil Smithson, Milfordβs mayor, blacksmith and sometimes preacher man with a gift for fiery oratory, doesnβt want anything to do with a snobby schoolteacher from up North. On top of everything else, the schoolteacher lady has a will hard enough to match the iron he forges. He must organize his fellow formerly enslaved citizens into a new town and raise his young daughter alone. Still, his troubled past haunts him. He cannot forget the promise he made to his daughterβs mother as she diedβthat their child would learn to read and write. If only he didnβt have secrets that the new schoolteacher seems determined to uncover.
To keep THE PREACHERβS PROMISE, Amanda and Virgil must put aside their enmity, unite for the sake of a newly-created community in a troubling age, and do things they never imagined. In the aftermath of the flood that was the Civil War, God set his bow upon the earth to show love and understanding for humankind. To reflect Godβs promise, these combatants must put aside their differences and come together--somehow.
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