Army widow Dulcie McDaniel's life has been the consequence
of one bad choice after another: each one supposedly leading
to a better life, in a better place then where she was
floundering. She was a consummate lost soul and now the only
place to go was backwards -- home to Locust. Locust was a
dead end place to grow up in but she was doomed to return to
a place that would ultimately condemn her to a life bereft
of any chance of a true family life and happiness: home to a
ramshackle house, drunken father, and townsmen who would
certainly regard her with disrespect.
Shortly after returning to her father's house with her young
daughter Madeline in tow her already shaky world is once
again closing in on her. Her father is suspected of
murdering the town's most respected citizen and the locals
take justice into their own hands in the form of a town
lynching. Dulcie is sure her father was innocent but her
story falls on deaf ears. Once again she is powerless,
moneyless and treated as a piranha. But she has no where to
go, she has to work this farm for herself and her daughter.
The question is how. The answer seems to arrive out of
nowhere in the form of a drifter, Rye Forrester, who is on
the surface looking for a place to work for room and board.
Desperate for help in working the farm Dulcie disregards her
suspicions and gives Rye a chance. Both Dulcie and Rye work
diligently keeping a safe distance. They both have
scandalous secrets from their past and although a mutual
attraction develops it seems they are destined to remain apart.
In A REASON TO BELIEVE, McKade stays true to the historical
time of her story when small towns lived and died depending
on the infusion of money from wealthy merchants. The
families of these wealthy merchants oftentimes became the
royalty of the town and if these families were destroyed
then the future of the town was in peril. Small towns and
small minds is the miscreant in this story. The good guys in
the story are quite flawed and seem almost bent on their own
destruction. But you have to keep rooting for the good guys
even if not really sure who they are. McKade keeps you
believing that good will triumph.
Lonely and filled with regrets, Dulcie McDaniels struggles
to provide a decent life for her daughter. Usually shunned
by proper folks, she's suspicious of Rye Forrester, a
drifter offering to work for his keep. But after he helps
harvest the crop, her feelings toward the handsome stranger
turn into a consuming passion. But Rye has his own secrets.
When their tragic pasts catch up with them, these two
wounded souls must fight for the love that will keep them
together for a lifetime.
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