Journey into the Blue Ridge Mountains of 1918 where Laurel McAdams endures the challenges of a hard life while dreaming things can eventually improve. But trouble arrives in the form of an outsider. Having failed his British father again, Jonathan Taylor joins is uncle’s missionary endeavors as a teacher in a two-room schoolhouse. Laurel feels compelled to protect the tenderhearted teacher from the harsh realities of Appalachian life, even while his stories of life outside the mountains pull at Laurel’s imagination. Faced with angry parents over teaching methods, Laurel’s father’s drunken rages, and bad news from England, will Jonathan leave and never return, or will he stay and let love bloom?
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Summary
From: Rebecca Maney
Book Title: My Heart Belongs in the Blue Ridge Book Author: Pepper Basham What do you like about this book:
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"Yep, kissing thoughts could give a coon dog competition for perseverance."
Kissing was about the last thing Laurel McAdams had on her mind at the moment. Getting the new lowlander teacher far, far, away from the lion's claws, mountain lion that is, immediately took precedence, even if the man was easy on the eyes. What in "tarnation" would bring a man like Jonathan Taylor to her Appalachian mountains?
"He didn't know why he was running, or from what . . . . . but he ran as if his very life depended on it." Maybe coming to these remote mountains and joining his uncle's mission hadn't been the smartest thing to do, but it sure was turning into an adventure; especially when his trail guide looked like an angel but talked with a back woods brogue that would take some getting used to. Could he really make a difference here or was this going to be another failure for his father to hold against him?
Journey deep into the Blue Ridge mountains where you will find the sweetest of stories; lives that are rich with family heritage, while pleasantly bereft of possessions; intelligence and wisdom shared for generations, gained far outside the pages of a textbook; and an abiding love that not only births dreams, but follows them.
"Love is not love which alters when its alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove. Oh no! It is an ever fixed mark, that looks upon tempests and is not shaken . . . . " - Shakespeare
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