A Transcontinental Affair

A Novel

By: Jodi Daynard

Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith

A sweeping tale of adventure and danger, innovation and corruption, rivalry and romance on America’s first transcontinental train trip.

May 1870. Crowds throng the Boston station, mesmerized by the mechanical wonder huffing on the rails: the Pullman Hotel Express, the first train to travel from coast to coast. Boarding the train are congressmen, railroad presidents, and even George Pullman himself. For two young women, strangers until this fateful day, it’s the beginning of journey that will change their lives.

Sensitive Louisa dreads the trip, but with limited prospects, she’s reluctantly joined the excursion as a governess to a wealthy family. Hattie is traveling to San Francisco to meet her fiancé, yet she’s far more interested in the workings of the locomotive than she is in the man awaiting her arrival. As the train makes its miraculous progress westward, the two women find their lives and hearts entwining in unexpected ways.

As they grow closer, so does the danger in the wilds of the frontier and in the lengths the railroad men will go to protect their investments. Before their journey is over, Louisa and Hattie will find themselves very far from where they intended to go.

©2019 Jodi Daynard (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Not my taste

Did not care for the storyline, not enough to hold my attention. Droned on
sorry

Loved it!

A very entertaining and interesting listen! I could picture most scenes during the narration. Definitely worth the read or listen.

Short Story

This book should of been a short story. There was a lot of unneeded filer. The narrator had issues pronouncing several words and mispronounced them over and over.

All is not as is seems, knowledge is not wisdom

This is a magnificently told story of an historical journey. Thanks to Emily Sutton-Smith, the characters came to life and I fell in love with Hattie and Louisa. The description of the land they journeyed and the train they rode was brilliantly breathtaking. The love they shared grew sweetly as they traveled. The depth of their friendship was delightful. I only wished to know the rest of the story. I hope Jodi Daynard will give us a book 2 so we may know how they lived. A delightful read of historically epic proportion.

It was ok, and not what I thought it would be

Not crazy about this one. The story felt a little forced and unexpected in ways. And I wasn't able to have hardly any sympathy for either of the main characters.