The author of _Bird in Hand_ and _The Way Life Should Be_ delivers her most ambitious and powerful novel to date: a captivating story of two very different women who build an unexpected friendship: a 91-year-old woman with a hidden past as an orphan-train rider and the teenage girl whose own trouble
Orphan Train Sweetheart
โ Scribed by Mollie Campbell
- Book ID
- 110682938
- Publisher
- Mills & Boon Love Inspired Historical
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 207 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781489265739
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Spring Hill is the orphan train's last stop โ a final chance for Simon McKay to find homes for his young charges. When his fellow placing agent quits, Simon enlists help from the frontier town's pretty schoolteacher. Cecilia Holbrook is as intriguing as she is independent, yet Simon's devotion to his mission will soon call him back to New York.
Long overshadowed by her flirtatious sister, Cecilia is done with waiting for a man to choose her. She's already fighting the school board to keep her position. Now she's struggling not to lose her heart to Simon. Could their shared concern for the children show them how to follow a new dream, together?
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the farmlands of the Midwest, carrying thousands of abandoned children whose fates would be determined by pure luck. Would they be adopted by a kind and loving family, or would they face a childhood and