Tracie Peterson and Kimberley Woodhouse Team Up to Deliver a Stunning Depression-Era Drama
Gwyn Hillerman loves being a nurse at her father’s clinic on the beautiful Alaskan frontier. But family life has been rough ever since her mother left them, disdaining the uncivilized country and taking Gwyn’s younger sister with her.
In Chicago, Dr. Jeremiah Vaughan finds his life suddenly turned upside down when his medical license is stripped away after an affluent patient dies. In a snowball effect, his fiance breaks their engagement. In an attempt to bury the past, Jeremiah accepts Dr. Hillerman’s invitation to join his growing practice in the isolated Alaska Territory.
Gwyn and Jeremiah soon recognize a growing attraction to each other. But when rumors of Jeremiah’s past begin to surface, they’ll need more than love to face the threat of an uncertain future.
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Summary
Overall Once again, my favorite way to learn about history! Though the story itself is fictional, the circumstances of the beginnings of Palmer, Alaska are completely true. I love to have unique historical events revealed to me within the offering of a story. In 1935, under President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, the Federal Emergency
Relief Administration established the Matanuska Colony. From the drought-starved Midwest, 203 families traveled by train and ship to reach the fledgling colony. Their housing was in a tent city for that first Alaskan summer. Each family drew lots for individual 40acre tracts and a farming adventure began. These are details that Peterson and Woodhouse incorporate in their story-line, which revolves around twenty-something, Gwyn Hillerman and Dr. Jeremiah Vaughan who is in his early thirties. Gwyn has lived in the area since she was very young when her doctor father came there to minister to the native people in the area. Dr. Vaughan comes in an effort to flee from
accusations of malpractice and manslaughter. Gwyn struggles with feelings of abandonment by her mother who couldn't stand the privations of Alaska and fled back to her high-society roots with Gwyn's younger sister. The characters are interesting as they adjust to life in Alaska, and Gwyn and her father and the natives adjust to the onslaught of homesteaders. One year the town wasn't; the next year it was on its way to being a thriving community that you can visit today. Mixed into the plot is a
shady character who adds a mysterious element to the story. Nasnanna, the aged native grandmother like character faithfully keeps the Lord and His truth infused into all the lives that cross her path. A good read with a lovely romantic ending.