A Promise to Believe In
Brides of Gallatin County, Book One
by Tracie Peterson
Paperback
Price: £8.99
Publisher:Bethany House imprint of Baker Pub from Lion
Published:2008
ISBN:978-0-764-20148-6
GoodBookStall Review:
Right at the start of the book the Father of the three young Gallatin women is shot dead, presumably accidentally, in the street outside the saloon in a settlement in Montana Territory, May 1879. As the story unfolds a picture of life in that time and place emerges. Gwen the older girl has been married and was widowed immediately after. When a man purporting to be her husband’s brother turns up unexpectedly and accuses her of seducing his brother she and her younger sisters do not take kindly to the situation. Harvey had said he was an orphan, and when the girls’ pa had first met him he was sick and destitute. Gwen, Beth and Lacey continue to run the ‘Stage Stop’, a Boarding House for travellers passing through the Territory, with the help of two brothers and their Christian friends Patience and Jerry, but the bawdy saloon just across the way is a thorn in their flesh. There is a happy ending of sorts but some unresolved issues to be addressed, so I am looking forward to the next in the series.
Reviewer: Mary Bartholomew (30/12/08)
Right at the start of the book the Father of the three young Gallatin women is shot dead, presumably accidentally, in the street outside the saloon in a settlement in Montana Territory, May 1879. As the story unfolds a picture of life in that time and place emerges. Gwen the older girl has been married and was widowed immediately after. When a man purporting to be her husband’s brother turns up unexpectedly and accuses her of seducing his brother she and her younger sisters do not take kindly to the situation. Harvey had said he was an orphan, and when the girls’ pa had first met him he was sick and destitute. Gwen, Beth and Lacey continue to run the ‘Stage Stop’, a Boarding House for travellers passing through the Territory, with the help of two brothers and their Christian friends Patience and Jerry, but the bawdy saloon just across the way is a thorn in their flesh. There is a happy ending of sorts but some unresolved issues to be addressed, so I am looking forward to the next in the series.
Reviewer: Mary Bartholomew (30/12/08)
