Spring for Susannah

My latest read was a Christian Fiction Novel by Catherine Richmond. Spring for Susannah is Catherine Richmond's first novel and I have to say I enjoyed it. This is a classic Christian Romance story about finding love and of course finding a relationship with God.

Susannah has lost everything... including her parents. She resigns herself to the only option she feels she has and becomes a mail-order bride. She agrees to become the wife of a farmer, her pastors brother, in the Dakota Territory.

Susannah is a quite and reserved women who has never learned to show affection to anyone... let alone a man. Her new husband, Jesse, is as wild as the land and gives Susannah more love and patience them she feels she deserves. He slowly chips away that wall Susannah is hiding behind.

I have to admit... this story line would not have caught my interest if I were to just walk into a book store to buy a Christian Fiction novel. I have never really got into the western frontier books. This novel in not for children and may be best kept for married women. It does contain sexual content, which is clean and within the context of marriage. This book also goes into the struggles in communication in a marriage, miscarriage... and abuse.
It was an inspiring story... she learns to really trust. She learns to trust her husband and most of all she learns to trust God.

I enjoyed this story... read it in three days. I am glad I came across it though the Booksneeze program.



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