I loved Laura Ingalls Wilder as a girl, but it's been a long time since I've read an "old west historical" novel and I'm really honored to have the opportunity to discuss the book here. (OK, I know that Laura was technically a prairie girl)...
Twice Loved is the second book in the Belles of Timber Creek series. The story picks up at the end of the Civil War, where our heroine, Willow Madison, has defended her home town, fought the Yankees- along with her best friends Copper and Audrey, and in the process lost just about everything in the burning rampage of the cruelest war in American history.
When her widowed uncle Wallace down in Texas writes her a letter outlining a plan that could solve all of their problems she is willing to give it a try. It seems that Silas Sterling, a wealthy gentleman in Thunder Ridge, has decided to settle down and is seeking a wife. Uncle Wallace is sure that Willow has what it takes to capture the rich Mr.Sterling's heart- she does- but would it mean selling out her own dreams of marrying for love or is this God's divine plan for her life? Silas is a nice man but happens to be thirty years her senior- I think Richard Gere would make a decent Silas Sterling...
Willow arrives in Thunder Ridge with a bang and sets of a chain of events that will involve forgiveness, love, faith, and buttermilk pie... Oh, and a really handsome sawmill owner with some fireworks of his own...
I think that Laura Ingalls Wilder would have really enjoyed this gentle saga with Lori Copelands signature characters and timeless themes.
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