A Reason to Live by Maureen McKade
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(Mass Market Paperback)
- Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
- Pub. Date: September 2006
- ISBN-13: 9780425212202
- Sales Rank: 67,667
- 304pp
- Series: Forrester Brothers
Synopsis
Sweeping Western historical romance from the author of To Find You Again.
After the Civil War, a Confederate nurse seeks to comfort the loved ones of the men she watched die. And the father of a dead soldier-a rugged, weary, ex-gunslinger-will give her the sanctuary she so desperately needs.
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September 15, 2006: I stayed up all night reading this book. I was fasinated by the plot. The story could have been set in any time period from 1862 to today. Wonderful, thoughtful story. Not your usual romance novel. This isn't your usual damsel in distress or beautiful woman on the run novel. This is fiction at it's best.
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August 05, 2006: During the Civil War Nurse Laurel Covey provides solace to dying soldiers though no one offers comfort to her. Her Massachusetts parents disowned her after forcing her to choose between them and her Virginian spouse, who died at Gettysburg. His family wants nothing to do with a New Englander. Though watching the young die torches her soul, she writes down their last words promising them she would deliver their final message to loved ones. --- In 1865 though bone wary from the war, she begins her odyssey to bring comfort to the grieving family members of those she watched die. When two scraggily hooligans assault her, bounty hunter Creede Forrester rescues her. The Texan has come east to find his estranged son, who fought for the Confederacy. She informs him that his son died. Anger joins his feelings of guilt as he never obtained the chance to reconcile with his offspring. He joins her quest out of remorse for failing his late spouse and son. As they venture from one grieving family to another, they turn to each other for solace love blossoms, but both has major psyche hurts that make neither able to show how they feel. --- Though a historical, A REASON TO LIVE is a deep poignant tale that clearly would apply today as Laurel makes the difficult rounds to provide grieving individuals and families with the last words of their deceased loved ones. The lead couple is a enchant pair who care about others for different reasons. The romance enhances the story one, but this Post Civil War drama belongs to those suffering from the loss of a loved one perhaps if the presumptive first strike believers had to visit the surviving family members to tell them their loved one died in combat they would take a harder look at the war only option. --- Harriet Klausner
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