Freedom's Promise

by Suzanne D. Hellman

Tabitha has her freedom but she didn't expect the loneliness.

Alone. Stranded without family or friends, money or work on the edge of the wilderness. That's not what Tabitha bargained for when she left Victorian England eagerly anticipating a new life. In America she wouldn't be the young widow to be pitied dependent on her dead husband's family.

God will provide. Tabitha clings to the promise. He will provide a job. A place to live. New friends.

But what about the love of a husband? Dare she hope for that? Etienne Rousseau, the charming Frenchman she met on the ship, offers one solution to her loneliness, while rough-edged Lucas Hayes offers another. Perhaps one of these men is part of God's provision for her. . . .

300 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1998

Reviews

[Monique Cameron · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tabitha is a courageous heroine who lives according to her convictions under circumstances when it would be tempting to take the much easier path offered to her. All of the characters in the story are multi-faceted and some evoke more sympathy from the reader. The storyline is less predictable than most I’ve read in this historical romance genre. Tabitha moves from England to a small town in the general vicinity of Chicago at a time when people were debating about slavery and predicting a civil war.