The Preacher's Promise (Home to Milford College Book 1)

The Preacher's Promise (Home to Milford College Book 1)

â€œIf it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.â€â€”Daniel 3:17

1866 â€“ Oberlin, Ohio
Devastated by her fatherâ€™s death days after her triumphant graduation from Oberlin College, Amanda Stewart is all alone in the world. Her fatherâ€™s unscrupulous business partner offers her an indecent proposal to earn a living. Instead, to fulfill a promise she made to her father, she resolves to start a school to educate and uplift their race. Sorting through her fatherâ€™s papers, she discovers he had carried on a mysterious correspondence with a plantation in Milford, Georgia. She determines to start her teaching work with the formerly enslaved. However, when she arrives, the mayor tells her to leave. Thereâ€™s no where for her to go.

Virgil Smithson, Milfordâ€™s mayor, blacksmith and sometimes preacher man with a gift for fiery oratory, doesnâ€™t want anything to do with a snobby schoolteacher from up North. On top of everything else, the schoolteacher lady has a will hard enough to match the iron he forges. He must organize his fellow formerly enslaved citizens into a new town and raise his young daughter alone. Still, his troubled past haunts him. He cannot forget the promise he made to his daughterâ€™s mother as she diedâ€”that their child would learn to read and write. If only he didnâ€™t have secrets that the new schoolteacher seems determined to uncover.

To keep THE PREACHERâ€™S PROMISE, Amanda and Virgil must put aside their enmity, unite for the sake of a newly-created community in a troubling age, and do things they never imagined. In the aftermath of the flood that was the Civil War, God set his bow upon the earth to show love and understanding for humankind. To reflect Godâ€™s promise, these combatants must put aside their differences and come together--somehow.
Country USA
Manufacturer Liliaceae Publishers
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-07-27
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Liliaceae Publishers
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-07-27
Format	Kindle eBook

The Preacher's Promise (Home to Milford College Book 1)

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