Tish,
a Michigan woman, decides to buy a house in Alabama, the one her
great-great-great-grandparents owned. She is ready for a change. Her fiance had been tragically killed just a few weeks before what was
to be their wedding day. Her life has been going nowhere since.
But
when she gets moved into her new house, she is shocked to find out
that the people in the town, once they know her name, give her a cold
shoulder. It seems her great-great-great-grandfather was a “carpet
bagger,” taking advantage of the southern people after the Civil
War. And no one in the town has forgotten it.
Add
Mel to the story. She is a twenty year old runaway who has come back
to her hometown, penniless and pretty much disowned by her family and
Tish takes her in. And then there's George. He owns an antique store
and has eyes for Tish.
And
there you have it. The book is longer than the plot deserves. It
might have made a good short story. As a full length novel, the story
drags. The issues with Mel, being good, then bad, then good, then
bad, well, it is just repetitive. And the “romance” between Tish
and George is stilted and drags on. Then the end is very quick.
Suddenly, every one lives happily ever after.
Some
of the characters are Christians, like Meg, who keeps meaning to find
a church, as soon as she gets settled. Mel desperately prays to God
to help her (even when she is doing something not exactly legal).
That's pretty much it.
Meg
Moseley lives with her husband in Atlanta, near the foothills of the
southern Appalachians. This is her second novel.
WaterbrookMultnomah,
344 pages.
I
received a complimentary egalley from the publisher for the purpose
of this review.
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