The Preacher's Promise
Author | : Piper Huguley |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-08-17 |
ISBN-10 | : 1500851914 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781500851910 |
Rating | : 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Preacher's Promise written by Piper Huguley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-08-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devastated by her father's death days after her triumphant graduation from Oberlin College, Amanda Stewart is all alone in the world. To fulfill a promise she made to her father, she resolves to start a school to educate and uplift their race. Sorting through her father's papers, she discovers he had carried on a mysterious correspondence with a plantation in Milford, Georgia. When she arrives in Milford to investigate, the mayor tells her to leave. Virgil Smithson, Milford's 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. He must organize his fellow 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 daughter's mother as she died: that their child would learn to read and write. If only he didn't have secrets that the new schoolteacher seems determined to uncover.