Garlock's ( Homeplace ) trite, cliche-ridden tale is set in the years before and after World War I. When 15-year-old Letty Pringle becomes pregnant, her father, a hypocritical evangelical minister, beats her and orders her to "take your hot little twat and leave my house." Her lover,stet comma Mike Dolan, has left home to find work so that he can marry Letty, not knowing she is pregnant. Mike returns to hear that Letty is dead--her father having publicly announced her demise--and enlists to fight in the warp. 58 . In fact, Letty has taken refuge on her grandparents' Nebraska farm, convinced that Mike has abandoned her. When he appears at the farm after five years determined to "devote the rest of his life making it up to her," Letty doesn't want to hear about it. However, Letty's wise, old Grandpa Jacob, along with her and Mike's son, Patrick,stet commas and Helen, a child fostered out to Letty's care, give the determined lover a place in their hearts. But just as things are about to work out for Mike and Letty, some cartoonlike villains--Helen's drunken, child-molesting father, a sheriff's deputy turned bootlegger and Letty's Bible-thumping family--all threaten their newfound happiness.
"Ribbon in the Sky" tells of a love that time could not diminish. Spritely, auburn-haired Letty Pringle had been forbidden by her hell-and-brimstone preacher pa to see Mike Dolan, but the young sweethearts had whispered their vow someday to be man and wife. Then a cruel betrayal tore them apart and left Letty on a windswept Midwestern farm to raise their son alone. Struggling to build a future, over the years she learned to harden her heart to desire...until big, dark-haired Mike marched into town, looking for his woman and his dream - and ready to fight the world to haver her in his arms again.
Dorothy Garlock "A gifted storyteller." - Chicago Sun-times
"The undisputed grand mistress of the frontier novel." - Romantic Times
"Letty, Mike, Jacob, and Patrick will wring your heart out one minute and put a smile on your face the next. Don't miss this very special treat." - Catherine Coulter, New York times bestselling author of Impulse.
Dorothy Garlock "A gifted storyteller." - Chicago Sun-times
"The undisputed grand mistress of the frontier novel." - Romantic Times
"Letty, Mike, Jacob, and Patrick will wring your heart out one minute and put a smile on your face the next. Don't miss this very special treat." - Catherine Coulter, New York times bestselling author of Impulse.
Always a great story.
Enjoyed every word!!
