100 hundred years ago, things weren’t all that different! Not here in Chula Vista anyway!

Book Review By Sherrie Miranda

This review is for: When Rain Comes: A Sweet Historical Romance

This story is based on real events that happened 100 years ago here in Chula Vista. Pat Maxwell has brought that period alive with the characters of Carrie and Nathan, both somewhat misfits in the proper 1915 world of courtship and marriage. Nate still lives at home, in part to help his father with the lemon orchards, but also in the hopes of getting his act together so he can buy a home for some future time when he could support a wife and have a family.

Carrie is the new teacher in town and she doesn’t have much experience as a teacher or as a humble person in a small town. Having come from Chicago and having lived most of her life with her grandmother, Carrie is used to seeing things a little different than most. Carrie is very concerned about being proper as the rules for teachers were very strict back then. Fortunately, Chula Vista is a very small town (the downtown is just two blocks long!), and being newly formed, people aren’t so apt to judge every little action of their teachers. They are just glad to have a teacher of Carrie’s caliber in their little one horse town.

This is a love story set in the time of a drought. A rainmaker comes to town and everybody’s talking about him and whether he’s doing work that should be left up to God, or if his attempt to create rain is scientific.

It’s a lovely story that can be read by any age. Hopefully, it will get read in schools at least here in SoCal where we are again going through a drought. Let’s just hope that we don’t have a similar ending as they did back in 1916 as it could be a real disaster today!

You can buy Pat Maxwell’s book on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/When-Rain-Comes...