num_pages: 183
description: 1720: Jack Hunter is about to be hanged for the murder of his neighbor. Jack knows hes innocent and the unscrupulous constables will seize his land when hes dead. He asks Lucy Hamblin the only girl he ever loved to marry him in the jail. Her father broke them up four years ago but now her father is dead. Will Lucy be willing to grant his last request and become the widow Hunter? This book won the short historical category of both the Inspirational Readers Choice Contest and ACFWs Book of the Year Contest for 2007. It was favorite historical of the year among Heartsong readers for 2006.
language: English
title: The Prisoner's Wife
publisher: Tea Tin Press