Tina

Prairie Roses Collection 2023 Book 29

By: Donna Schlachter

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

1882
A poor orphan trying to make the best of a bad situation. An army engineer who wants both family and future. Is there any such thing as the perfect choice?

Tina’s family is so poor they live in a covered wagon outside the brand new town of Loveland, Colorado. When her widowed mother dies in an outbreak of the influenza, Tina is left to raise her two younger sisters.

Paul Burton, with the US Army Corps of Engineers, is on his way west with John Wesley Powell to survey sites for potential dam sites. He meets Tina and admires her perseverance. When her mother dies, he wants to take care of her, except he’s on a grand adventure and has no time right now for family. He helps as he can, including providing food and buying the land she was renting for the covered wagon she lives in

Brokenhearted that Paul is not willing to give up his career for her, and convinced he doesn’t love her, Tina allows another to court her. Except this man has no intention of supporting her sisters—or her. As saloon owner and brothel keeper, he plans to put her to work for him in the upstairs rooms as soon as possible.

Will Tina go from broken home to broken heart to broken reputation—or will God intervene and save her from herself? Will Paul realize too late that his choices affect not only himself—or will his Lord reach into his heart in time?