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Heartbound
After the Civil War, Thomas Heart is anxious to go home to his Wisconsin farm. The last thing he expects to find when he gets there is a woman who insists she is his wife! Ginny is sure the war-torn Thomas is her husband. But when he doesn't recognize her, she begins to wonder. Is it possible that "this" Thomas is not hers to keep?
288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published March 1, 1997
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June 15, 2019
Thomas Heart, war-weary and emotionally closed-down, just wants a bit of peace. He’s looking for 140 acres of peace on his rural farm in Wisconsin, after the long years of the Civil War.
Instead of the abandoned farm he was expecting, Thomas finds his home and property occupied by a family of German nesters. Worse than that, one of the nesters swears she is married to Thomas.
When Thomas goes around the village looking for someone to attest to his unmarried state, he finds that almost all of the local men died in the Civil War; those few that survived left their minds and/or body-parts with the conflict.
Frustrated by his inability to prove that he is single, Thomas gets a wounded fellow soldier to look for Ginny’s real husband. Ginny and the other women of the village devise plots to help Thomas remember his wife. Thomas wants none of it.
My only problem with the story is that it sagged some in the middle. Later, however, months were covered in just a few pages.
I don’t want to give too much away about this lovely story; it’s one that stays with the reader long after the last page.
Instead of the abandoned farm he was expecting, Thomas finds his home and property occupied by a family of German nesters. Worse than that, one of the nesters swears she is married to Thomas.
When Thomas goes around the village looking for someone to attest to his unmarried state, he finds that almost all of the local men died in the Civil War; those few that survived left their minds and/or body-parts with the conflict.
Frustrated by his inability to prove that he is single, Thomas gets a wounded fellow soldier to look for Ginny’s real husband. Ginny and the other women of the village devise plots to help Thomas remember his wife. Thomas wants none of it.
My only problem with the story is that it sagged some in the middle. Later, however, months were covered in just a few pages.
I don’t want to give too much away about this lovely story; it’s one that stays with the reader long after the last page.
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