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Grace
The Oregon Trail offers hopes of fertile land, new beginnings, and for Grace Miller, the chance to be a real reporter.
Documenting her journey will prove she can write just as well as the men but first she has to find a way to join the wagon train.
Cowboy Jake Burman is traveling light, he has room in his wagon for Grace's belongings. As they walk mile after mile each day they become friends. Their nights are spent talking, recovering, and occasionally dancing when the fiddle players start around the campfires. Grace wonders if love might bloom between them.
Only the trail is hard and cruel at times and disaster soon strikes. Fate leaves little Bella Devon an orphan and Grace cannot leave her alone. Soon the child means so much to her and she will not let her go to an orphanage. Doubting Jake will take on a child, Grace pushes him away.
Now Grace's plans have changed, can crossing the prairie fulfill all her dreams, or will she face the same problems out west she left behind in New York?
248 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 5, 2019
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May 9, 2019
A different wagon trail story
This story is much different than most I have read about wagon trains. The first thing I noticed was no mention of the wagon master or rules. The rules normally require married couples only. This is the story of a single lady reporter traveling with a single Farmer looking to homestead. It does is good story but I have a four star rating because I miss the closeness established by most wagon train stories. Instead of small town atmosphere it reads more like a modern day subdivision where people living close occasionally don't even know the others name and never speak. The only mention of a minister and service of any sort is the brief funerals. My preference is for Christian Historic Fiction. This is a clean story.
This story is much different than most I have read about wagon trains. The first thing I noticed was no mention of the wagon master or rules. The rules normally require married couples only. This is the story of a single lady reporter traveling with a single Farmer looking to homestead. It does is good story but I have a four star rating because I miss the closeness established by most wagon train stories. Instead of small town atmosphere it reads more like a modern day subdivision where people living close occasionally don't even know the others name and never speak. The only mention of a minister and service of any sort is the brief funerals. My preference is for Christian Historic Fiction. This is a clean story.
May 18, 2019
This is a fabulous account of the trip to Oregon by wagon train in 1845. Grace is a Journalist from New York City going to Oregon to join her brother who went to Oregon 2 years ago. Jake is a tenant farmer from Missouri who is going to Oregon in search of a better life. They join forces and help each other on the trip. Grace learns many things during the trip and writes them for publication for the newspaper in New York. The description of the trip to Oregon is so realistic I almost felt like I was on the trail along with Grace, Jake and their traveling companions. This is another fabulous story by Indiana Wake. Definitely a must read.
I received an ARC of this book from the author, Indiana Wake, and this is my voluntary and honest review.
I received an ARC of this book from the author, Indiana Wake, and this is my voluntary and honest review.
May 7, 2019
Jake and Grace
Jack was a tenant farmer and no future to speak of in site. He purchased his prairie sooner on was on the wagon train ready to head to Oregon. Grace was a young lady reporters not much future except for writing a society column. She decided to head west to her brother in Oregon. She realizes she can not get there on the wagon train alone she finds Jake and he agrees to allow her To travel and help N.Y. On the long hard journey. She is to write her story of her journey for publication by her editor and that she does, warts and all. You will enjoy this story of her journey.
Jack was a tenant farmer and no future to speak of in site. He purchased his prairie sooner on was on the wagon train ready to head to Oregon. Grace was a young lady reporters not much future except for writing a society column. She decided to head west to her brother in Oregon. She realizes she can not get there on the wagon train alone she finds Jake and he agrees to allow her To travel and help N.Y. On the long hard journey. She is to write her story of her journey for publication by her editor and that she does, warts and all. You will enjoy this story of her journey.
May 14, 2019
Heartache and heartstrings
Grace and Jake team up on the long and strenuous trip to Oregon. Each one is going for different reasons and become the other's reason for continuing the trip. This is one of the best books I have ever read and I read many! Characters are strong and the story line even stronger. I just experienced life on the Oregon trail in the back of a covered wagon. Excellent writing, but keep tissues handy.
Grace and Jake team up on the long and strenuous trip to Oregon. Each one is going for different reasons and become the other's reason for continuing the trip. This is one of the best books I have ever read and I read many! Characters are strong and the story line even stronger. I just experienced life on the Oregon trail in the back of a covered wagon. Excellent writing, but keep tissues handy.
May 30, 2019
Amazing story!
I haven't read the 5th book yet, but this one is the best of the series so far! I loved the fact that Grace writes as a reporter and uses the trail to Oregon as her story fodder! Just brilliantly written!
I haven't read the 5th book yet, but this one is the best of the series so far! I loved the fact that Grace writes as a reporter and uses the trail to Oregon as her story fodder! Just brilliantly written!
May 10, 2019
A little different story
Of the Oregon trail. The heroine is a reporter so party of the story is written as an article. A little different for me.
Of the Oregon trail. The heroine is a reporter so party of the story is written as an article. A little different for me.
May 26, 2019
Great love find a one heart
I like this story how a young woman named Grace.find that love and.life is very important in the trail.of life
I like this story how a young woman named Grace.find that love and.life is very important in the trail.of life
May 31, 2019
Prairie Roses
Grace is book 4 of the series by Indiana Wake. It's good story of the struggles of traveling by wagon to Oregon. There's drama and humor and the romance is sweet.
Grace is book 4 of the series by Indiana Wake. It's good story of the struggles of traveling by wagon to Oregon. There's drama and humor and the romance is sweet.
January 22, 2020
I'm sorry I stopped reading this story at chapter 3 because it didn't grab my interest.
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