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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Maren is helping a widow raise her granddaughter after a war. But soon something unexpected happens. Wooly come back and wants to raise his daughter. His grandmother has a hard time welcoming her son in law back from the war. Did the war break a family or did the loss to almost everything also destroy the family. Wooly come back he want to see his daughter and help around the farm. He has his regrets as well as Maren. Can both get over past hurts or will their be no second chance at love. Maren is helping a widow raise her granddaughter after a war. But soon something unexpected happens. Wooly come back and wants to raise his daughter. His grandmother has a hard time welcoming her son in law back from the war. Did the war break a family or did the loss to almost everything also destroy the family. Wooly come back he want to see his daughter and help around the farm. He has his regrets as well as Maren. Can both get over past hurts or will their be no second chance at love. Maren is helping a widow raise her granddaughter after a war. But soon something unexpected happens. Wooly come back and wants to raise his daughter. His grandmother has a hard time welcoming her son in law back from the war. Did the war break a family or did the loss to almost everything also destroy the family. Wooly come back he want to see his daughter and help around the farm. He has his regrets as well as Maren. Can both get over past hurts or will their be no second chance at love. I read “Dandelions of the Wind”, a novella which is the first book of The Quilted Heart series, by Mona Hodgson. I really liked this story of a post-civil War Missouri family. The story is mainly about Maren, an immigrant mail-order-bride from Denmark who comes to the United States to marry. Because she is gradually losing her eyesight, the groom refuses to marry her. She is offered shelter in the form of room and board in return for working on the farm and caring for the granddaughter of Mrs. Brantenberg. The girl’s father, Rutherford (Wooley) returns after a four-year absence, during which he fought in the Civil War and in the west against the Native Americans. He left the farm after the death of his wife, Mrs. Brantenburg’s daughter, in childbirth. He has come home to make amends and to be with his daughter again. He doesn’t count on meeting the lovely Maren. This is a very sweet story and I wish it had been longer. I hope the subsequent stories in this series pick up where this one left off. I would very much like to find out what happens next. I was sent this free Kindle book from the publisher, Waterbrook Multnomah, and their blog, Bloggingforbooks.com for my honest review. You can find this review on my blog at http://wp.me/s2pjIt-388 no reviews | add a review
Belongs to SeriesQuilted Hearts (book 1)
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HTML:Tattered relationships and broken hearts, like a quilt, can be pieced together by Godâ??s love. When Maren Jensen took a job on Elsa Brantenbergâ??s St. Charles, Missouri farm, she never expected to call the place her home. As she grows to love Mrs. Brantenberg and her granddaughter, Gabi, Maren is transformed from a lonely mail-order bride-without-a-groom to a beloved member of the Brantenberg household. But when Gabiâ??s father, Rutherford â??Woolyâ?ť Wainwright, returns to the farm unexpectedly, everything changes for Maren. Despite the failing eyesight that caused her suitor to reject her, she can see that Wooly desperately needs to reconnect with the family he abandoned when his grief sent him running toward the armyâ??and into the Civil War. She also senses there could be something more between the widower and herself, if either can move beyond their past hurts. Comforted and counseled by the wisdom of the women in her beloved quilting circle, Maren begins to discover the cost such decisions demand of her heart. Are her choices in obedience to God, or is she running from His plan? Is it too late for love to be stitched into the f No library descriptions found. |
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Did the war break a family or did the loss to almost everything also destroy the family. Wooly come back he want to see his daughter and help around the farm. He has his regrets as well as Maren. Can both get over past hurts or will their be no second chance at love. ( )