Traveling across the prairie with her father, sisters, and the man her father has promised her hand to in marriage, Lady Amelia Amhurst would have foregone spending the summer of 1875 in America and returned to their regal estate in England-if only her father would release her from the marriage engagement.
Amelia finds herself strangely drawn to Logan Reed, the handsome American guide hired to lead them safely to Estes Park in the Colorado Rockies. Despite her aristocratic English breeding, Amelia falls in love with this barbaric country...and with Logan Reed.
Will Logan's love and faith in God force Amelia to confront her own firm belief that there is no God? If only God would prove Himself to her...and find a way for her to be Logan's Lady.
I'm thinking that this was one of Peterson's early books. The characters didn't have much depth to them, and the plot just really plodded along. I've definitely read better books by Peterson.
So much of this book did not work for me, particularly the couple practically tripping into love upon meeting which is a major pet peeve of mine. Logan decided on day 1 he'd set out to make Lady Amelia his. And, even after he learned she was not a Christian, he gave no thought to being unequally yoked. He just decided to give her wise counsel and pray God would open her eyes. The spiritual aspect worked well and was both tender & interesting to read, but almost seemed at war with the rest of the underdeveloped story. This story does touch on the sensitive subject of suicide and the lies the devil tells when one is contemplating it, so caution should be given.
It is usually enjoyable reading about places that you have lived in or visited and this was no exception being placed in Colorado during the 1800s. A couple of British families visit Estes Park and immediately conflict with the "American" way. Not all of them deal with it in a profitable way. However, one woman finds out what is most important during a very trying ordeal. Lessons of sacrifice, of love and of God. In the end, it was an uplifting book with no sex or profanity.
This is the first book I've read by Tracie and I wasn't sure I would like it. Well, now I'm hooked and can't wait to read more of her books! This book was such a wonderful story with wonderful characters that you just fall in love with and a perfect description that makes you see the world of that time so clearly! ❤
A good historical Christian fiction romance story with a combination of an English Lady, her family, her intended husband from England who she can't stand and a handsome guide treking through the wildness in Colorado mountains. The guide makes it clear he doesn't care for English nobility's idea of roughing it and ruffles the sensibilities of the beautiful English Lady during most of the trip.
I read the book that included the bonus story 'Along Unfamiliar Paths' by Amy Rognlie and both stories were right up my alley! definitely gets 5 stars!
I think Tracie really got it right when the English behaviour manner hit American 1870's behaviour manner. Culture and customs standing on ceremony out of their countries name and nobility. We are equal in God's eye and money doesn't impress God. Understand Amelia's disgust of her father of getting into debt by gambling and she was a commodity to be sold to get out of debt..... this doesn't mean he learnt a lesson because he still had two other daughters he could trade off. What about, that men made the decisions and women just went along with them because they were said to have no brain....I certainly wasn't meant to be from that era. Facing suicide because there seemed no way out for Amelia was an option because she wasn't responsible for the gambling debt. I wouldn't have condemned her. But Logan saved her life.
I enjoy all of Tracie Peterson's books and enjoy the emphasis of the main characters to develop a relationship to Jesus. Her romances are simple, clean and chaste.