The Prisoner’s Wife by Susan Page Davis
Mass Market Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc (June 1, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1597894621
ISBN-13: 978-1597894623
Editorial Reviews
Note: The Prisoner’s Wife is now available in stores everywhere in the anthology, Maine Brides.
Product Description
Lucy lost Jack years ago. Jack Hunter’s father was a drunk and a criminal, and Lucy Hamblin’s father believed the apple lay near the tree. When her father forbade their love, Lucy buried her heart out of obedience, but she never stopped loving Jack. On a strange evening four years later, she’s summoned to the local jail. Jack has been accused of murder and has a request to make of Lucy. It appears Jack Hunter will hang in the morning, and to preserve his property and provide for the woman he loves, he asks Lucy to marry him. When his trial is postponed and ultimately dismissed, Jack has new worries: Lucy agreed to become a prisoner’s widow, not the wife of a man her father despised. Can Lucy and Jack accept he Lord’s miracle of preservation – of Jack’s life and reputation…and the love they believed they’d lost?
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I really enjoyed this historical Heartsong. The author did a great job of keeping the flow of the story, and she also had something exciting to happen in each chapter, forcing the reader to keep turning the pages. You really feel Jack’s pain spans several years. Lucy’s father never accepted that Jack would be good enough for his daughter, thwarting Jack’s plans to court her. However, when Jack is arrested for a crime he didn’t commit, he marries Lucy, wanting her to gain the inheritance of all he’s acquired over the years. The plan takes a new twist, and when Jack is released, a strange series of thefts happen on the farm. Both Lucy’s and Jack’s faith is tested in this wonderful story!