Freedom's Promise (Reardon Brothers, Book 1)
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Genre: Religion & Spirituality
Book Type: Paperback
Author:
Genre: Religion & Spirituality
Book Type: Paperback
Annie McGregor was sold by her father as an indentured servant for 7 years. She has served the time and has worked for wages for another year to earn a small amount of money as well as other needed items like seeds and household items. Annie has a honey bee hive so she can barter honey for items that she does not have cash to buy. She also is a cheesmaker and has a wheel of cheese to use as barter. She has a dream to own a piece of land where she can start a dairy with her 2 cows and bull. She hears that there is a man in town who is looking for people to go over mountain to Tennessee..
Isaac (Ike) Reardon is looking for settlers to go to Tennessee to buy land he has for sale and start a community. When Annie approches him about joining he tells her no when he finds she has no husband, brother or father to go with her. Annie comes up with a plan to force Ike to take her with him. She sets out by herself with her cows and bull pulling her small cart full of her personal belongs, the bee hive and cages of chicken. Annie's trusty musket and her dog make her feel safe. Annie's plan to force Ike to let her join his group of settlers is successul but it makes Ike and Annie freindemies.
Ike makes a wrong assumption that Annie is a widow and that makes it easier for him to allow her to join the group. The settlers encounter outlaws, lost children and all the other dangers that settlers in 1786 encountered. The outlaws return and kidnap Annie to hold for ransom. As Ike searches for Annie he realizes that he loves her and wants to spend his life with her. The book has a happy ever after ending.
The book has many scriptures quoted in the book. There is some odd language such as over mountain to mean they are going from North Carolina to Tennessee. There is a settler family who are German and the author uses an accent in her writing for their conversation such as "Togetter, ve all take Gott mit us". It got to too much for me and slowed down my reading.
Isaac (Ike) Reardon is looking for settlers to go to Tennessee to buy land he has for sale and start a community. When Annie approches him about joining he tells her no when he finds she has no husband, brother or father to go with her. Annie comes up with a plan to force Ike to take her with him. She sets out by herself with her cows and bull pulling her small cart full of her personal belongs, the bee hive and cages of chicken. Annie's trusty musket and her dog make her feel safe. Annie's plan to force Ike to let her join his group of settlers is successul but it makes Ike and Annie freindemies.
Ike makes a wrong assumption that Annie is a widow and that makes it easier for him to allow her to join the group. The settlers encounter outlaws, lost children and all the other dangers that settlers in 1786 encountered. The outlaws return and kidnap Annie to hold for ransom. As Ike searches for Annie he realizes that he loves her and wants to spend his life with her. The book has a happy ever after ending.
The book has many scriptures quoted in the book. There is some odd language such as over mountain to mean they are going from North Carolina to Tennessee. There is a settler family who are German and the author uses an accent in her writing for their conversation such as "Togetter, ve all take Gott mit us". It got to too much for me and slowed down my reading.
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