Review: A Taste of Forever...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 24, 2010
Summer blooms at Hearts Crossing Ranch and Kenn Martin is free from his teaching job for a few months of his family-run covered wagon tours that capture the pioneer spirit for the tourist groups who come to visit Colordao. It's "God's Country" indeed as Ms. Hanson paints vivid pictures, her descriptives lush and engaging.Into the tour walks Christy Forrest, a lovely, spirited landscape architect who battles bitterness over the tragic and sudden way her father died and a mother who has stepped back from her faith.  They each must face the question Ms. Hanson so aptly asks? When it comes to faith, and you hit the bottom of a valley, can you ever reach the pinnacle again?From soft-lit campfires, to soft harmonica renditions of Amazing Grace you can almost hear, Ms. Hanson fosters an air of intimacy about the development of their relationship, and the revelations they share, that draw you in, and leave you moving forward through the story like a wagon train.  When they kiss, as Hanson says, it's the flavor of forever.Like a deep down prayer, Hearts Crossing Ranch comes alive. Through Hanson's vivid, skilled story telling one takes a journey of affirmation forgiveness, redemption, and discovers the power of love between a man and a woman who are destined to be together, the love of family, and above all, the love of God.