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Book Review of Rachel Lemoyne

Rachel Lemoyne
Rachel Lemoyne
Author: Eileen Charbonneau
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 1


This is one of my all time favorite romances. Charbonneau is an outstanding writer who takes two people living outside their cultures and crafts an incredible love story. Based on the true story of the gift of corn to the Irish people made by the Cherokee tribe during the potato famine, the heroine, who with her brother survived the Trail of Tears as a child, is a missionized Cherokee Indian woman who takes on the task of delivering the corn to Ireland. There she comes in conflict with an Irish outlaw who has lost everything - wife, children, home, and the will to live. Can two such different people find love and happiness as they travel across America to homestead in Oregon? It's a book you can read again and again.