Running from her past, a devout teacher finds her future. At Home in Persimmon Hollow is the first book in a series chronicling love and life in a small fictional town in frontier Florida. In 1886, the pious Agnes is forced to leave - for her own safety - the Catholic convent-orphanage where she
Stitching a Life in Persimmon Hollow
β Scribed by Gerri Bauer
- Book ID
- 111122309
- Publisher
- Franciscan Media
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 158 KB
- Series
- Persimmon Hollow Legacy
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781616369644
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β¦ Synopsis
In At Home in Persimmon Hollow, readers' hearts were captured by Agnes Foster as she built a new life for herself in a very special frontier town amid the Florida wildernessβand found love along the way. Now, in the second novel of the Persimmon Hollow Legacy series, we meet starry-eyed seamstress Josefa Gomez.
Living with her aunt and uncle, the housekeeper and caretaker at Agnes and Seth's Taylor Grove compound, Josefa longs for the glamorous life of a fashion designer far beyond her small town. But her dreams of designing exquisite gowns for rich women in Paris and New York alarm her Tia Lupita, who fears that Josefa's ambitions are unrealistic for a girl of her station. In late 19th century America, a Mexican woman's best prospect may well be a suitable marriage and a position in the household of a kind employer. When Lupita announces a plan for Josefa to move away from Persimmon Hollow to live with distant relatives in Texas and prepare for an arranged marriage, the headstrong beauty knows she has to make an audacious choice.
Will Josefa follow her dreams of glamor or submit to her aunt's plans for stability and security? Can she find a way to use her gifts in a truly productive way? And when a choice arises between two suitors, will she choose a rich man who could give her all the outward trappings she desires, or a quiet carpenter who has fewer material goodsβbut a bigger heart?
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