Lauraine Snelling has teamed up with Kiersti Giron to write Leah's Garden book 2, A Time To Bloom. This book follows the adventures of the Nielsen sisters as they establish a new life in Nebraska. I loved the way the characters related to each other. I really enjoyed the storyline and the town sounds like a nice place to visit. (I couldn't live there because I like my modern comforts.) So anyone looking for an enjoyable book about frontier life should grab a copy of A Time To Bloom, a pitcher of tea, and settle in for a relaxing adventure.
I was given this book by NetGalley with no expectations. All thoughts are my own.
From Amazon:
Will their dreams fall apart when confronted with all that is stacked against them?
Delphinium Nielsen and her sisters have accomplished much in the past year, traveling west and settling in Nebraska. They are on their way to building a garden in dedication to their mother and working against the forces of nature to make their farm thrive. However, none of that can mask their concern that they are quickly running out of money. Del's work teaching in their booming town offers hope, not only to support her sisters financially, but also to better her students' lives. Not all of the town sees it that way, though, with the rebuilding of the schoolhouse continually neglected and her brightest student's father demanding he work the farm instead of attend class.
When their brother Anders arrives with his war-wounded and heartbroken friend RJ, Anders sees the strength of the sisters' idea to start a boardinghouse and decides to invest in it. Del finds RJ barely polite and wants nothing to do with him. But despite Del and her sisters' best-laid plans, the future--and RJ--might surprise them all.
About the author:
About Lauraine Snelling
Award-winning and best selling author Lauraine Snelling began living her dream to be a writer with her first published book for young adult readers, Tragedy on the Toutle, in 1982. She has since continued writing more horse books for young girls, adding historical and contemporary fiction and nonfiction for adults and young readers to her repertoire. All told, she has over eighty books published with more than 4 million copies in print.
Shown in her contemporary romances and women’s fiction, a hallmark of Lauraine’s style is writing about real issues of forgiveness, loss, domestic violence, and cancer within a compelling story. Her work has been translated into Norwegian, Danish, and German, and she has won the Romantic Times Career Achievement award for Inspirational Fiction, the Silver Angel Award for An Untamed Land and a Romance Writers of America Golden Heart for Song of Laughter.
As a sought after speaker, Lauraine encourages others to find their gifts and live their lives with humor and joy. Her readers clamor for more books more often, and Lauraine would like to comply ... if only her paintbrushes and easel didn’t call quite so loudly.
Lauraine and her husband, Wayne, have two grown sons, and live in the Tehachapi Mountains with a watchdog Basset named Winston. They love to travel, most especially in their forty-foot motor coach, which they affectionately deem “a work in progress”.
Kiersti Giron holds a life-long passion for history and storytelling. She has been published in Grit, Clubhouse Magazine, Clubhouse Jr., and two newspapers and is currently collaborating on some projects with Lauraine Snelling. She loves to write stories that show the intersection of past and present, explore relationships that bridge cultural divides, and probe the healing Jesus can bring out of brokenness. Her novel manuscripts set in the American West have been contest finalists and winners, including two ACFW Genesis Awards.
Much of Kiersti’s interest in Native American cultures and history comes from the relationships she has built with Native friends after living five years on the edge of the Navajo reservation in New Mexico. She has a growing passion for racial justice and reconciliation and continues to learn and grow through friendships and reading in this area. She has a B.A. in English with a writing emphasis from Azusa Pacific University and taught five years of high school English at a local Christian international school.
A member of ACFW and a close-knit critique group, Kiersti loves learning and growing with other writers penning God’s story into theirs, as well as blogging and connecting with readers at www.kierstigiron.com. She lives in California with her beloved husband, their busy little son, and two kitties.
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