Sweet Love at Honey Landing By Linda Ellen

Sweet Love at Honey Landing by Linda Ellen
Series: Maple Heights Series Book #1
on April 4, 2018
Genres: Fiction / Christian / Romance / Historical, Fiction / Romance / Historical / General, Fiction/Romance/Western Historical
Pages: 310
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October 1870 - Cincinnati born Angelique DeWitt, widowed and caring for her five-year-old daughter, Zina, finds herself scrambling for a place for her and her little girl. About to become homeless and in desperation, Angelique makes a quick decision to become a mail order bride for a man named Thaddeus Billings, a hotel owner in Kansas. But...once they get on their way, Angelique wonders if she has done the right thing, especially when disaster strikes!Terry Cramer has had it rough most of his life. Now divorced and raising his six-year-old son, he has a prosperous farm and steamboat landing on the banks of the Ohio River-thirteen miles south of Louisville. He has everything he needs... except a good woman to love him and help raise his boy. Always too busy to go out looking for a female to court, Terry jokingly challenges God to drop one onto his lap.Sometimes the Lord works in mysterious ways, using strange methods and odd instruments-even a broken down old steamboat. You just never know what's around that next bend in life, do you?If you enjoy a good, clean, old-fashioned romance with lots of history and endearing characters, written like the classic movies of old, then Sweet Love at Honey Landing is for you!

Sweet Love At Honey Landing is book one in the Maple Heights Series by Linda Ellen. I enjoyed reading this book. The beginning mentions that the setting is based on an old home a few miles outside of Louisville, KY. Riverside: the Farnsley-Moremen Landy is a historic home originally built in 1837. I always like it when authors infuse real places and events into their writing and Ellen does that here. She also includes the retelling of the Stonewall, a steamer boat that capsized in 1869 and lost over 200 people. My only negative about the story is there are too many descriptive passages of setting and too little of the action. I loved the heroine Angelique DeWitt. She is lovely and kind – everything you could want in a heroine. The hero Terry Cramer was okay, a bit too indecisive for my taste.  I have to say the character who stole the show for me is Moses Terry’s friend. Overall this book is a good, sweet romance.