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1998 HOLT Medallion finalist! / 1998 finalist for Romantic Times Reviewers Choice!The fictional town of Hope discovers the importance of forgiveness, overcoming prejudice, and the dangers of keeping unhealthy family secrets.
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This is book two in this series and also takes place in Hope, Kansas in the year 1865. It picks up where book one left off, but deals with different main characters, although you are introduced to them in book one. Could be read as a stand alone, but you will miss out on a lot if you don't start reading them in the order written.
Jack Cornwall seems to have lost it all. His family farm after the war, his sister Mary, his little nephew Chipper, and he is feeling very defeated. He hides in a barn in Hope, trying to get better from a gunshot wound. Caitrin finds him in the barn and against her common sense, decides to help him. She introduces him to the love of the Lord which will lead to the love these two will share. But there is a lot of show more turmoil that will take place before these two can even begin to have their hopes and dreams realized.
As it says on the back cover, "From the ashes of the refiner's fire can emerge beauty both graceful and enduring. In 'Prairie Fire', the flames that threaten to consume the town called Hope are overcome by the flood of love and forgiveness in the hearts of Caitrin Murphy and Jack Cornwall." Watching these two interact you see the spitfire in both of them and it was fun watching them share their honest opinions about each other. A well told story that had me wanting to start up book three next, 'Prairie Storm'. show less
Jack Cornwall seems to have lost it all. His family farm after the war, his sister Mary, his little nephew Chipper, and he is feeling very defeated. He hides in a barn in Hope, trying to get better from a gunshot wound. Caitrin finds him in the barn and against her common sense, decides to help him. She introduces him to the love of the Lord which will lead to the love these two will share. But there is a lot of show more turmoil that will take place before these two can even begin to have their hopes and dreams realized.
As it says on the back cover, "From the ashes of the refiner's fire can emerge beauty both graceful and enduring. In 'Prairie Fire', the flames that threaten to consume the town called Hope are overcome by the flood of love and forgiveness in the hearts of Caitrin Murphy and Jack Cornwall." Watching these two interact you see the spitfire in both of them and it was fun watching them share their honest opinions about each other. A well told story that had me wanting to start up book three next, 'Prairie Storm'. show less
Second in the 'town called Hope' series. A well-written light read with a dramatic climax. Christian thread running through, and interesting social history in the American prairies.
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Catherine Palmer is Associate Professor in Sociology at Deakin University, Australia.
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- Canonical title
- Prairie Fire
- Original publication date
- 1998-10
- People/Characters
- Jack Cornwall; Chipper; Caitrin Murphy
- Important places
- Hope, Kansas, USA
- Epigraph
- I have come to bring fire to the earth. From now on families will be split apart, three in favor of me, and two against---or the other way around. There will be division between father and son, mother and daughter, mother-in-... (show all)law and daughter-in-law. ---Luke 12:49, 52-53, NLT
When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burned up, the flames will not consume you. For I am the Lord, your God . . . . You are precious to me. You are honored and I love you. ---Isaiah 43:2-4, NLT - Dedication
- For Sharon Buchanan-McClure,
My friend - First words
- Hope, Kansas
October 1865
There's not a good heart among those folks," Jack Cromwall muttered as he led his horse across the bridge away from Hope.
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