“Sara Mitchell’s stories are like bright tapestries, woven with romance, suspense, humor, and a keen insight into the spiritual needs and struggles of us all. She gives us a compassionate look at human nature through characters that live and laugh and love…no small achievement.”
–B.J. Hoff, author of An Emerald Ballad and Song of Erin series
“This book is historical women’s fiction at its best. Romantic, insightful, fresh, inspiring…. It’s a treat, from beginning to end.”
–Lisa Tawn Bergren, best-selling author of the Northern Lights series
Two Mysteries to Unravel. Two Loves to Be Discovered.
One Faith to Be Sparked Anew.
Two sisters wonder all their lives why their father hid mysterious objects in the secret drawers of their heartwood chests. But it will take two special men, and God’s perfect timing, for them to begin to see the answer through their Father’s eyes.
the cardinal feather…
Free-spirited Garnet Sinclair has a growing reputation as a pen-and-ink artist–and a secret she has entrusted to only one man: Dr. Sloan MacAllister. But Sloan has a shadowed past of his own–one he must confront if he is to win the courageous and beautiful redhead who has captured his heart.
the gingerbread girl…
Meredith, Garnet’s stubborn older sister, desires a fulfilling career…and love. Wealthy businessman J. Preston Clarke seems to be the answer to her prayers. But all is not as it appears, and Meredith will walk through fire before she finds true love in the last place she would ever dream.
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Summary
This thoughtfully written book is really two books in one. It centers around the widower father, Jacob Sinclair, and his three daughters: Meredith, Garnet, and Leah. The book is literally separated into two parts with the main focus of the first part revolving around Garnet, and what at first glance appears to be a struggle with accepting her glaring red hair. However, as you continue to read you begin to see that her struggle goes well beyond this; that there is much more behind her insistence on wearing sloppy sunbonnets and living a quiet, almost reclusive life¬style. In the midst of Garnet's personal ordeal, the author introduces us to a doctor running from his past . . . Running from his own hurting heart. As you would expect, he and Garnet run head¬long into each other, and in doing so end up resolving the secrets of their pasts together. The second part of the novel centers on the eldest daughter, Meredith, who is as different as night and day from her sister, Garnet. Meredith likes pretty things and dressing to the nines. She is efficient and flighty. She enjoys being in the middle of the hustle and bustle of life, therefore her job serving as Mr. Benjamin Walker's hotel office manager suits her perfectly. Meredith has always been all about boys, and now that she is of marrying age, her chief focus has been finding and marrying the man of her dreams. Problem is that she has a warped sense of who that man of her dreams is. She has made numerous previous mistakes in her mission, mostly because of what she allows to motivate her. In the end she discovers that her propensity to \"force\" things to turn out like she wants them (in an effort to get her own version of happiness), does nothing but bring trouble, unhappiness, and even near¬death to her and those who love her most. The author does a good job of presenting these issues of the young heart and presenting some of the problems that come with them. I appreciate the thoughtful writing she does to allow her characters and her readers to resolve them. There is a second novel in the series which is set up in the same way as the first: divided into two parts. Virginia Autumn is the title of the sequel and centers on the baby sister, Leah, and father, Jacob. Both novels are set during the post¬Civil War years in the Shenandoah Valley
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