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    Daughter of Twin Oaks (Secret Refuge Series #1)

    Daughter of Twin Oaks (Secret Refuge Series #1)

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    by Lauraine Snelling


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      ISBN-13: 9781585589937
    • Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
    • Publication date: 04/01/2000
    • Series: A Secret Refuge , #1
    • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
    • Format: eBook
    • Pages: 336
    • Sales rank: 41,404
    • File size: 1 MB

    Lauraine Snelling is an award winning author of over 30 books, both fiction and non fiction for adults and young adults. She has two horse series for young teen girls, the GOLDEN FILLY SERIES which is completed and HIGH HURDLES. Lauraine is also the author of the popular RED RIVER OF THE NORTH series set in North Dakota in the past part of the 19th century. The Bjorklund brothers bring their families from Norway to begin a new life on the land they will turn from prairie to fertile farms.

    Besides writing both books and articles, Lauraine teaches at writer's conferences across the country and has an active speaking career. She and husband Wayne have two grown sons, four grand dogs and live in the country where Lauraine can garden, sew, do crafts, cross stitch, enjoy her birds and eventually have a horse again.
    Lauraine Snelling, an award-winning author of fifty-plus books with sales of over 2 million copies, also writes for a wide range of magazines and teaches at writers' conferences across the country. She and her husband make their home in Tehachapi, California. Visit www.laurainesnelling.com

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    Will the Wounded Soldier She Rescues From Certain Death be Able to Break Down the Walls of Bitterness That Surround Her Heart?

    Seeking to fulfill the promise she made to her dying father, eighteen-year-old Jesselynn Highwood determines to take her little brother and the family's remaining Thoroughbreds from Twin Oaks plantation in Kentucky to her uncle's farm in Missouri, where they will be safe for the remainder of the Civil War.



    Jesselynn is also fleeing a cruel man in Confederate uniform who has pledged to take revenge against her for refusing his hand in marriage. No longer safe at Twin Oaks, she embarks on a perilous journey, taking on the momentous responsibility for the lives and welfare of all who go with her.



    They ride at night and hide during the day, dodging both Confederate and Union troops along the way. Encountering hunger, sickness, and the devastation of war, they finally arrive in Missouri only to discover that the situation there puts them in even greater danger. Discouraged, disillusioned, and facing a severe testing of her faith, Jesselynn will stop at nothing to save her family, the horses, and whatever remains of Twin Oaks.

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    Jesselynn Highwood always has been a tomboy--not easy for a girl in the 1860s--and horses have been her way of life on her family's Kentucky horse farm. During the Civil War, both armies are desperate for good horses, and with her brothers and father away at war, Jesselynn's responsibility is to keep the horses hidden. When her seriously wounded father comes home, he makes Jesselynn promise to take the remaining horses to safety on his brother's farm in Missouri. After her father dies, Jesselynn frees all her family's slaves, cuts her hair, puts on trousers, and sets off with the horses. She travels with her baby brother and three of the freed slaves. Along the way, they are joined by three children, also orphans of the war, and a soldier whose life the children saved. While Jesselynn travels west, her sister Louisa is with their aunt in Richmond, Virginia, volunteering in a hospital. Because of all the carnage she sees, Jesselynn loses her faith in God, whereas Louisa, who daily nurses desperately wounded soldiers, finds her faith is a solace to both her and the soldiers in her care. Snelling writes an affecting story that does not gloss over the horrors of war. Jesselynn and Louisa are strong women who go against the grain of society to do what they believe is right. The issues of faith are woven smoothly into the story rather than being imposed upon it. This book should appeal to readers of historical romance as well as to readers of inspirational fiction who will welcome the next installment in the Secret Refuge series. VOYA CODES: 3Q 3P J S (Readable without serious defects; Will appeal with pushing; Junior High, defined as grades 7 to 9; Senior High, defined as grades 10 to12). 2000, Bethany House, Ages 13 to 18, 282p, $10.99 Trade pb. Reviewer: Ann Bouricius
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