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When Southern-born Adelaide Pride follows her Yankee employer to California, she faces a private civil war and re-examines her values of love and honor. Twenty-six-year-old Adelaide Pride stepped out of the horse-drawn buggy to gaze one last time at the charred remains of her childhood home. Six generations of Prides had lived and entertained there under warm Southern skies. That was before the Civil War- robbing Addie of her youth, her parents, and the man she would have married! show more Fortunately, an aunt and uncle had taken her in, but they could scarcely afford to feed themselves. Not wishing to remain a burden, Addie accepted a position as a companion to a Yankee spinster at a health spa in Napa Valley, California. Addie shivered with a mixture of fear and anticipation. Very soon she would journey by train to the remote land that was untouched be conflict and overflowing with financial prosperity and social opportunities. Did she dare to hope that her dreams of love and belonging were yet possible? Or would she become lost in the a world of the sick and aged, ending up a spinster like her employer, Mrs. Amberly? show lessTags
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Jane Peart went to college in New England and worked as an airline attendant before becoming a full-time writer. She is the author of over 60 books in both the secular and Christian markets. She writes several series including Brides of Montclair, Westward Dreams, American Quilts, Orphan Train West, and Edgecliffe Manor Mysteries. She is also a show more visual artist. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Promise of the Valley
- Original title
- Promise of the Valley
- Original publication date
- 1995-05
- People/Characters
- Adelaide Pride; Mrs. Amberly; Louis Montand; Estelle Montand; Rex Lyon
- Dedication
- To Lloyd,
with gratitude
for his generous help and patience - First words
- Prologue
Virginia
September 1870
Adelaide Pride looked up at the blackened structure---all that remained of her beloved grandparents' home, Oakleigh.
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Christian Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PS3566 .E238 .P76 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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