This is Janette Oke's latest book co-written by her daughter Laurel Oke Logan. I really enjoyed this book and cannot wait for the next one to come out, which I am sure will be a while since this one just came out in January/February 2014!! The book gave you time to get to know the characters and wasn't just set on making it into a predictable love story.
Beth Thatcher, the main character, follows in her aunts (Elizabeth in When Call the Heart by Janette Oke) footsteps and goes to western Canada to become a school teacher. Leaving behind her family and their privileges and wealth. Things are worse than she imagines, with most of the men having died in a cave in at the mine and many women having the pressures of providing for their children on the western frontier alone.
Beth is so busy teaching the children and helping Molly at the boarding house, but she also wants to help teach the men in the mining camp how to read. Can Beth help the towns people open their hearts to accept the men living in the camps working in the mines and leave their prejudices behind? Then her younger sister Julie comes for a visit trying to get Beth matched up with several eligible men. Edward the boy who tormented her her entire
childhood, but seems to have grown up after becoming a Mountie, Jerrick the Mountie posted to their area, or Philip the young preacher that has a deep love for Jesus and preaches so differently than the sermons she heard growing up.
This book leaves some loose ends, so I am sure there will be a sequel, but I have yet to find any information on if and when that will be.
Hope you enjoy this great read!!
