When War Reaches Clarissa’s Back Door, the Trustworthy Become Even Fewer.
Journey into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, of 1863 where Clarissa Avery
Ross lives a full life. By day she is the daughter of a respectable
shoemaker being courted by seminary student Kyle Forrester. But by night
she is a conductor on the Underground Railroad, working with a
mysterious man called Liberty. She would like to share her work with
Kyle, but he refuses to enlist when the war breaks out. How can she
remain true to a man being labeled a coward? When the war comes to her
back door in an epic battle, the greatest challenges to her faith and
love are yet to come.
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About The Author
Murray Pura was born and
raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, just north of the Dakotas and
Minnesota. His first novel was released in Toronto in 1988 and was a
finalist for the Dartmouth Book Award. Since that time he has published
ten more novels, two collections of short stories, and several
nonfiction titles including the Zondervan books Rooted and Streams and
the Baker devotional Majestic & Wild. He has been a finalist for
several awards in the US and Canada and in 2012 won the Word Award of
Toronto for Best Historical Novel. Murray lives and writes in
southwestern Alberta and is currently published by Barbour, Baker,
Harper One, Zondervan, and Harvest House as well as several other
publishing houses – he works with publishers in Canada, America, the UK,
and Holland. His releases for 2013 include the novels: Ashton Park, The
Rose of Lancaster County, A Road Called Love, Seven Oaks, The Painted
Sky, Whispers of a New Dawn, Beneath the Dover Sky, The Name of the
Hawk, and An Amish Family Christmas. His diverse writing spans many
genres including: historical fiction, contemporary fiction, literary
fiction, romance, adventure, western, suspense, fantasy, Amish, and
inspirational. Most of his work is available in ebook format for Kindle,
Kobo, and Nook as well as in paperback.
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My Review
I enjoyed this read, but I figured it out early in the book, but wanted to know how everything unfolded.
The
author has us riding into the full battle of the civil war, and seeing
such horrors, with the solace that we know how things ended, but what a
high cost.
This story does have a bit of everything, including the
War, Underground Railroad, church and family, and a bit of sweet
romance.
A glimpse into life in the 1860’s in Gettysburg PA, and we are there!
I received this book through Net Galley and Barbour Publishing, and was not required to give a positive review.
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