In Love's Blessing, my new contemporary story in the First Street Church Kindle World, newly widowed Jenna McDowell, and medically discharged soldier Riel (Gabriel) Shepard, meet at his grandfather's Cooper Ranch near Sweet Grove,Texas.
They both came to the ranch to heal from their individual heartbreaks. Jenna’s husband committed suicide and left her destitute. Riel lost his foot in a military accident and suffers from PTSD.
Time and help from their family and pastor finds them healing and falling in love, but are they ready to marry?
Starts the new Clear Creek Legacy Series
How did I tie the past into the present? Riel's ancestors, Reuben Shepard, was featured in Darcie Desires a Drover in the Brides with Grit series, and Gabriel Shepard, in Gabe's Pledge in the Grooms with Honor series.
Riel is given a box of leather tools once used by his ancestors, because he is named after his great-great grandfather. Holding the tools makes Riel realize he's been handed a new profession, a saddle maker, as his ancestors were before him in Clear Creek, Kansas.
My new contemporary stories in the Clear Creek Legacy series will connect descendants, with their ancestors, as they struggle with a life-changing crisis.
Has anything handed down from your ancestors, pointed you to a new career?
In my case, old family photos, family history, and quilts started me writing down the stories of my ancestors, and led me to writing and publishing over thirty books.
Many thanks from the Kansas prairie!
Linda Hubalek
Boy Linda, you really gave these two some tough problems to overcome. Did you have to research PTSD for this story?
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I wish you great success with LOVE'S BLESSING.
Thanks, Sarah. Yes, I did some research, and happened to see a TV program on CTE, so worked that in the book too.
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