Hope Irvine always sees the best in people. While traveling on the rails with her missionary father, she attracts the attention of a miner named Luke and a young mine manager. When Luke begins to suspect the manager is using Hope’s missions of mercy as a cover for illegal activities, can he discover the truth without putting her in danger?
My Thoughts:
The Chapel Car Bride
was an interesting historical story taking place in the early 1900’s in West
Virginia. I had not ever heard of chapel
cars before or of their ministry as preachers would travel from town to town to
take God’s message to folks. Especially
in this story, Hope and her father are bringing the message to those who live
in mining towns. We also get a look at
how closed off the towns could be when strangers came. This is no surprise as there is very little
trust between the miners and the mine owners, especially the dangerous
conditions the miners worked in for low pay and the mine owners’ reluctance to
change anything due to their greed.
This also takes place during the time of prohibition. The
extra money that the miners make on their illegal moonshine that they sell to
the speakeasies and the animosity between them and the revenuers sent to stop
them is a powder keg about to explode. This is what Hope and her father
ride into when they stop at their destination, the town of Finch. They are not
the only newcomers as Kirby Finch, the son of Mr. Finch and the mine owner has
come as well to squelch any strike talk or union uprisings.
I received a copy of this book for free from Bethany House
Publishers. I was not required to post a
positive review and all the views and opinions expressed are my own.
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