Synopsis
Tabitha has her freedom-but she didn't expect the loneliness.Alone. Stranded without family or friends, money or work on the edge of thewilderness. That's not what Tabitha bargained for when she left VictorianEngland eagerly anticipating a new life. In America she wouldn't be theyoung widow to be pitied-dependent on her dead husband's family.God will provide. Tabitha clings to the promise. He will provide a job. A placeto live. New friends.But what about the love of a husband? Dare she hope for that? Etienne Rousseau,the charming Frenchman she met on the ship, offers one solution to her loneliness,while rough-edged Lucas Hayes offers another. Perhaps one of these men is partof God's provision for her. . . .Suzanne D. Hellman started writing Freedom's Promise while living in Waukegan,Illinois and later continued her historical research while traveling in England.She, her husband, their four children, Persian cats, and Jack Russell terriersnow call Arizona home. This is Suzanne's second novel., Tabitha, a lonely young widow, sets out for America. The love she finds there for a handsome widowed farmer and his young daughter is doomed--unless he can overcome his anger at God and put the tragic death of his wife behind him.
