Review: Dare Valley Feels Like Going Home!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 1, 2014
Once again, Ava Miles has taken me “home” to Dare Valley, straight to the heart and soul of the Hale family as Grandpa Hale relives his life and the story of his greatest love. Young Arthur Hale was determined to create a newspaper in Dare Valley that would become a voice to be trusted and heard throughout the West. His ambition and integrity to “get it right” was his obsession and his passion. When he hired the beautiful and intelligent Harriet “Jenkins” as his secretary, he sensed something special and different about this efficient, yet mysterious woman, but he had no idea what she would become to him or how deeply he would fall in love with her. Harriet was a woman on a mission to discredit the journalist who ruined her father, but how could she know the monster she was hunting would turn out to be the man she wanted in her life forever? With a touch of humor, faith, and trust in each other, Arthur and Harriet’s story begins the legacy of love for the Hale family that will triumph over time and transcend death.The Town Square by Ava Miles is nothing short of a true tale of romance and love, filled with the pitfalls of simply being human and learning to listen to your heart in spite of all else. Ms. Miles has given life to Arthur as a young man, and faithfully shown the promise of the man he would become, a mentor, the backbone of his town and his family, filled with that special spark that only a man who knew love and contentment could have! Harriet is portrayed as a woman ahead of her time, with determination and an inner strength to stand by and even stand up to the presence that is Arthur Hale. I laughed, I smiled, I got a little teary, because I "knew" their future and the legacy they began!Ms. Miles words melted into each page until the world receded around me and I was in Dare Valley, circa 1960, and I was part of the mine disaster, part of the momentous gathering at the town square and even the sounds and smells of the bowling alley felt right! Her strength as a writer and love for her work shine once again in The Town Square as she paints a portrait of a man whose love and support knows no bounds!