I
do. I have driven through the slip of a
town a hundred times, at least. Actually
it’s not really a town. Scottsburg is a
bridge over the Umpqua River and one of the smallest Post Offices you will see,
surrounded by a few homes. It is
peaceful, beautiful, and one of the settings for Lady Anne’s Quest.
It
has been just at six years since I moved from the Southern Oregon Coast to
Florida’s Treasure Coast. This book has
made me a bit homesick. The characters
pass through places that no one outside of Oregon has ever heard of and I had a
wonderful time traveling with them.
This
is the second book in the Prairie Dreams
Series. Unfortunately, I have not
read the first book, The Lady’s Maid, but
that was not a problem. This story
stands on its own with enough of the backstory added to understand there is a
history between the two main characters, Lady Anne Stone and Daniel Adams. Lady Anne has traveled from England to find
her long lost uncle to have him take his rightful place as the Earl of
Stoneford. Dan accompanies Anne through
the wilds of an untamed Oregon to find the man no one has heard from in
years. In spite of the fact that Anne
has turned down a marriage proposal from Dan, he stays by her side hoping that
she will change her mind and stay in America with him.
This
is a great story; having taught Oregon history and geography, and actually been
in the places mentioned in the story there was little chance I wouldn’t like
it. But it truly is a good read.
***For
anyone who has regularly traveled Highway 38***
I could not stop laughing at the point in the story where the main
characters, on horseback, could not get by the freighters because the trail was
too narrow. How many times have I been
stuck behind an RV on the windy little road, counting the miles until the next
passing lane, just to get stuck behind another RV! Ah, sometimes I really miss Oregon.
For more information about this and the first book in the Prairie Dreams Series click here or on the title above.
I
received this book free of charge from Barbour Publishing through NetGalley in
exchange for an honest review.
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