A Fire in the Heart

by Francine Rivers

Strong-willed Amnesty Brown leaves Boston to claim an inheritance in the Sierra Nevada mountains and finds herself the owner and new editor of the town newspaper, and falling in love with saloon owner Haydn Lomax

Genres: Romance, Historical Romance, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical

380 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1987

About the author

New York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers continues to win both industry acclaim and reader loyalty around the globe. Her numerous bestsellers include Redeeming Love, A Voice in the Wind, and Bridge to Haven, and her work has been translated into more than thirty different languages. She is a member of Romance Writers of America's coveted Hall of Fame as well as a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW).

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Reviews

[RavensScar · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is one of the books I can read again and again. I've read it the first time when I was a child and it has followed me all the way till present day. I just love it :)

[Mariannj · Rating 4 out of 5]

The writing, plot, and storytelling were all good. Francine Rivers has a way of keeping the story engaging from beginning to end. My only wish is that the romance between the main characters had been developed more. While I enjoyed their journey, I wanted to see their relationship grow in greater depth and spend more time watching them fall in love. I also wish the hero's character had been fleshed out further. He had a lot of potential, but I felt there was more to explore about his personality and motivations.

That said, the heroine's emotional outbursts grated on my nerves at times. It irks me when a person is led by emotions. Even so, it was an enjoyable read with strong writing and a page-turner story.

[Jennifer · Rating 5 out of 5]

“Shaft has a town full of men upholding the law…When anything happens anywhere, the owner of wherever takes care of whatever happens.” But “Arrogance and bad manners have never gotten anyone anywhere…Unless you’re a man, and then you might just become President.” Enter Amnesty Elizabeth Brown, “fresh, beautiful, clean, intelligent, determined, virginal, vulnerable, desirable and damn well deserving of far better than…this sordid environment.”

“There is nothing more treacherous in this world than a good woman and this one has all the markings of one… ‘You’re a very dangerous woman, Amnesty Elizabeth Brown…Because you dogmatically choose to see things the way they could be, rather than accepting the way things really are’…The real danger didn’t lie in her willful bullheadedness, but in her absolute sincerity and resolve. She believed in what she was doing…She meant her motto: Neutrality in nothing.” And she’s resolved to rise up and roar back through reclaiming her late uncle’s newspaper.

“She’s got a tongue sharp enough to castrate a grizzly bear at fifty paces!” He’s got a remarkable flair for good whiskey and bad women with reputations muddied beyond redemption, but her competition Haydn Lomax isn’t the only man in town vying for mayorship and marriage. “Amnesty decided that between Hadyn Lomax’s offer for the press and Thomas Colter’s more casual offer for the mine, she had a great deal to consider over the next few weeks.”

“This is the death of Miss Amnesty Elizabeth Brown…the birth of a married lady” and the resurrection of a nineteenth century mining community. Francine Rivers’ A Fire in the Heart is incendiary.

[Mindy G. · Rating 4 out of 5]

MM

[Melissa · Rating 5 out of 5]

loved it.