River Rest - Softcover

Davis, Susan Page

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0997230835 ISBN 13: 9780997230833

Publisher: Tea Tin Press, 2016

Synopsis

Unable to depend on her father to heal the crumbling family, Judith is afraid to trust the mysterious neighbor, Ben, who lives with his own grief.In rural Maine in 1918, Judith Chadbourne gives up her teaching job after her mother’s death to help her father with her five siblings. But when her father sinks into deep depression and her brother Joel is drafted, the household chores and farm work may overwhelm her. Neighbor Ben Thayer offers to buy their farm, shocking Judith and angering her father. An outsider from New York, Ben seems rich and mysterious, but his heart aches from his own loss. Judith accidentally breaks the antique crystal Christmas ornament her mother loved. The splintering star echoes her family’s shattering. Ben’s efforts to help make Judith suspicious, but when Joel falls critically ill at the army camp, Ben’s aid brings the beginnings of trust. After the armistice, and the community and family start to recover from the strain of the war, but Judith learns independence is lonely. When Ben is injured, she is the only one who can help him. Can love take her beyond the frozen Maine winter?

About this title

About the Author

Susan Page Davis is the award-winning author of more than eighty published novels. A Maine native, she now lives in Kentucky. She turned to her New England roots and family heritage for this story’s inspiration.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tea Tin Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0997230835
• ISBN 13: 9780997230833
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 180