The Believers [Hardcover] Janice Holt Giles

Description

In her historical novels about Kentucky, the author has become known for the integrity with which she handles her materials and for her realism with which she writes. Here, she continues her series about the settling of Kentucky with a moving story of love and marriage in the Shaker community.

Rebecca Fowler, daughter of Tice and Hannah, was only seventeen when she married Richard Cooper. She could not remember a time when she had not loved and trusted him and followed where he led. When Richard joined the Shaker community, Rebecca- as a dutiful wife at his side- became part of a strange world where men and women lived apart, coming together only for meals and worship. She learned that it took courage to follow the dictates of her heart.

Readers will find in Rebecca a heroine with her mother’s steadfast loyalty and shrewd good sense but with a feminine sweetness and charm all her own.