num_pages: 251
description: 1866  Oberlin OhioDevastated by her fathers death days after her triumphant graduation from Oberlin College Amanda Stewart is all alone in the world. Her fathers unscrupulous business partner offers her an indecent proposal to earn a living. Instead to fulfill a promise she made to her father she resolves to start a school to educate and uplift their race. Sorting through her fathers papers she discovers he had carried on a mysterious correspondence with a plantation in Milford Georgia. She determines to start her teaching work with the formerly enslaved. However when she arrives the mayor tells her to leave. Theres nowhere for her to go. Virgil Smithson Milfords mayor blacksmith and sometimes preacher man with a gift for fiery oratory doesn't want anything to do with a snobby schoolteacher from up North. On top of everything else the schoolteacher lady has a will hard enough to match the iron he forges. He must organize his fellow formerly enslaved citizens into a new town and raise his young daughter alone. Still his troubled past haunts him. He cannot forget the promise he made to his daughters mother as she diedthat their child would learn to read and write. If only he didn't have secrets that the new schoolteacher seems determined to uncover.To keep THE PREACHERS PROMISE Amanda and Virgil must put aside their enmity unite for the sake of a newly-created community in a troubling age and do things they never imagined. In the aftermath of the flood that was the Civil War God set his bow upon the earth to show love and understanding for humankind. To reflect Gods promise these combatants must put aside their differences and come together--somehow.
language: English
title: The Preacher's Promise
publisher: Liliaceae Publishers