**Disclosure**This book was sent to me free of charge for my honest review from the publisher. All opinions are my own.
About the Book:
Beloved, bestselling author of Amish fiction, Wanda E. Brunstetter takes readers on a journey in 1850 along the California Trail.
Only the brave—or foolhardy—would attempt a cross-country journey late in the season. Three wagons meet up in Independence, Missouri, in April 1850, and their owners decide to keep forging ahead despite many setbacks and delays. December finds them in the Sierra Nevada Mountains when a sudden snowstorm traps them, obscuring the trail.
Cynthia Cooper is traveling with her mother and the man she has promised to marry. But as Christmas is upon them and they are hunkered down in a small cabin, she is forced to reevaluate her reasons for planning to marry fellow-traveler Walter Prentice. When a widowed father heading to a California ranch and a gold prospector both show an interest in Cynthia, she weighs her dreams for marriage alongside her responsibility to care for her mother. Can love win over her timid heart?
My Review:
Anyone that is anyone knows that wagon trains or any type of travel by wagon was frowned upon if it took place during certain times of the year. Mainly because you could die due to weather conditions or your livestock could. Cynthia Cooper has a lot to lose way more than her life or so it seems. So she is fully prepared to weigh out the odds so she, her mother, and a man that she plans to wed travel a cross country for a better life.
But as with all fiction love stories this story has many twists of its own. Cynthia means well when she agrees to a marriage not really based on love. But she soon sees that maybe this isn't such a great well thought out plan as it once was. Soon other prospects come nto play and creates somewhat of a love triangle and now she has to rethink everything.
A great short novella that is perfect for the Christmas season. The author can create very well meaning stories that tug at your heart strings and that provide a strong plot with vivid characters.
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