Philip Dale Smith, Lisa Kay Hauser
ASIN: B008G1FDBQ
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 508
Security, gentleness, joy, love, and faith were hallmarks of Hattie Stoneworth Crowe’s life. Now the horrors of the Great Depression and the death of her husband threaten her future and that of her three-year-old daughter and unborn child. A potentially greater danger looms from an unexpected source.Smith Delaney, an out-of-work miner known for his wanderlust, hair-trigger temper, fast fists, and love for liquor comes to her looking for work as a handyman. Against all reason, she hires him.Their story is set in the coal fields of Muhlenberg County, in west-central Kentucky. Through hardships of the times, through birth and death, tragedy and triumph, a young woman seeks to hold on to faith and family; and a lonely man seeks family and faith. “This romance, set in a Depression-era mining town, is about family (the good, the bad, the ugly)…Hattie Stoneworth, widowed at 23 with one child ...