Love's Fortress
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3.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
A Love Story from the Past Brings Closure to Dani’s Fractured Family
Walk through Doors to the Past via a series of historical stories of romance and adventure.
When Dani Sango’s art forger father passes away, Dani inherits his home. Among his effects is a book of Native American drawings, which leads her to seek the help of museum curator Brad Osgood to decipher the ledger art. Why would her father have this book? Is it just another forgery?
Brad Osgood’s four-year-old niece, Brynn, needs a safe home, and Brad longs to provide it. The last thing he needs is more drama, especially from a forger’s daughter. But when the two meet “accidentally” at St. Augustine’s 350-year-old Spanish fort, Castillo de San Marcos, he can’t refuse the intriguing woman.
Broken Bow is among seventy-three Plains Indians transported to Florida in 1875 for incarceration at ancient Fort Marion. Sally Jo Harris and Luke Worthing dream of serving God on a foreign mission field, but when the Indians arrive in St. Augustine, God changes their plans. Then when friendship develops between Sally Jo and Broken Bow and false accusations fly, it could cost them their lives.
Can Dani discover how Broken Bow and Sally Jo’s story ends and how it impacted her father’s life?
Don’t miss other great books in the Doors to the Past series:
The Lady in Residence by Allison Pittman
Hope Between the Pages by Pepper Basham
Bridge of Gold by Kimberley Woodhouse
Undercurrent of Secrets by Rachel Scott McDaniel
Behind Love’s Wall by Carrie Fancett Pagels
High Wire Heartbreak by Anna Schmidt
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Uhlarik (Sand Creek Serenade) puts a triumphalist spin on colonization in this problematic dual-narrative historical. In 1875, young evangelists Sally Jo Harris and her intended, Luke Worthing, befriend Broken Bow and Painted Sky, two of the 73 Native Americans imprisoned at Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Florida. In present-day St. Augustine, Dani Sango inherits her estranged, art-forger father's home, where she finds a piece of Native American art dating back to the late 19th century. With the help of handsome art curator Brad Osgood and Matty Joie, co-owner of Dani's father's motorcycle ministry, Dani traces the artwork's history and makes a life-changing discovery about her past. Uhlarik weaves providence into her story through the ostensibly chance meetings of characters uniquely suited to meet each other's needs, such as when Dani first runs into Brad, who has the expertise to help her uncover the provenance of the art. However, the 19th-century story line fails to capture the complexity of Native American and colonist relations, providing an overly sympathetic portrait of colonizers. Though historical romance fans might enjoy this, its exaltation of proselytism will turn off some readers.
