LEARNING TO LOVE AGAIN

Author: Rebecca Goings ISBN: 1587494914 3/2005 HISTORICAL Publisher: BY GRACE PUBLISHING
Time Period: Texas 1874

In 1874, a young woman returns home from school only to find her entire family has been killed in a raging house fire. With nothing left save for the clothes on her back, Sarah Jamison has nowhere else to turn but to Paradise, Texas, a town that desperately needs a schoolteacher for their children.Derek Comstock, a widower with a young son, takes it upon himself to pick up the new schoolteacher from the train station and bring her back to Paradise. How can he be feeling this sudden ache in the new school teacher's presence?As their attraction for each other begins to grow, will Derek learn that it's all right to love again? And will they be able to hold on to each other despite the will of a madman who threatens to take it all away?

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:

LEARNING TO LOVE AGAIN is a wonderful, heartfelt novel about a man and a woman learning to do just that.

Sarah Jamison has returned home from getting her teaching certificates to find that her family home has literally burned to the ground. She has to begin a new life away from the tragedy and decides that Paradise, Texas, is just the place for her.

Derek Comstock is a lonely widower with a son in need of a mother, and a church in need of a teacher. Sarah seems to be just the ticket. He has no way of knowing how very much he needs Sarah until the day he meets her. It is the first time that he has thought of another woman since his wife's death.

Sarah and Derek are a beautiful couple who come to cherish one another in a wonderful way, despite the odds against them—said odds being a mad man who is determined to have Sarah at all costs, and the memory of a dead woman that won't quite allow Derek to let go.

LEARNING TO LOVE AGAIN tells a touching story about a man and a woman thrown together by fate and God. These two very alone people need each other in the worst way, and know that only once they can put the past behind them and depend fully on God, He will take care of them, show them where they should be, and whom they should be with.

Kristal Gorman