Praise for EARTHLY VOWS
“When you find yourself thinking of certain characters long after you’ve finished the book, you know the author has done her job. Patricia Hickman has certainly ‘done her job’ in EARTHLY VOWS—the charming ending to a charming series.”
—Sylvia Bambola, author of Refiner’s Fire and Return to Appleton
“Patricia Hickman’s EARTHLY VOWS, the finale to her popular Millwood Hollow series, presents a deeply emotional voyage into human hearts—the good, the wandering, and the misguided. Truth shimmers in every phrase.”
—Lyn Cote, author of the Women of Ivy Manor series
“EARTHLY VOWS is the perfect ending to the Millwood Hollow series. Patricia Hickman’s spare, unvarnished prose is well suited to her Depression-era tale.”
—Deanna Julie Dodson, author of In Honor Bound, By Love Redeemed, and To Grace Surrendered
“Patty Hickman’s EARTHLY VOWS is a sepia portrait of life in the 1930s. Her characters step alive off the pages and walk straight into your imagination.”
—Eric Wiggin, author of the Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm series
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Copyright © 2006 Patricia Hickman
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First eBook Edition: April 2009
ISBN: 978-0-446-56149-5
To Randy
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
ANN BRADSTREET
A special thank-you to Jim Gabbert of the State Historical Society, for providing me with the facts about Oklahoma City, Ardmore, and Norman during the 1930s.
Thanks to the Warner team for your faith and confidence in the Millwood Hollow series.
Thanks to my peers and the fantastic faculty at Queens University for your input and comments.
Contents
THE AIR WAS STIFLING HOT, INSULATED BY the hard blue Oklahoma sky. The meeting in the campus president’s office convened beneath the shade of the oldest oak tree on the Bible school campus. Jeb loosened his tie. The summer of 1936 was breaking all heat records. A student strummed a hymn on an oversized guitar, not far from where Jeb stood with Jonathan Flauvert, the school’s president. It was agitating, but he didn’t let on. It was hard to keep his composure, what with the heat. But Flauvert was long in description, and what he had to say left Jeb stunned.
Abigail Coulter, his fiancée’s mother, arranged for all of them to meet two of Fern’s brothers ...
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About Earthly VowsThe award-winning author of Fallen Angels, Nazareth's Song, and Whisper Town delivers the final novel in the acclaimed Millwood Hollow Series of role reversals, strange bedfellows, and ultimate redemption. Jeb Nubey and Fern Coulter are finally setting a wedding date, but their plans are derailed when a trip to Oklahoma to visit Fern's family catapults them into Fern's past 'the past she would prefer remained buried. Additionally, the challenges and perks that come with the wealthy community church Jeb is called to lead give him food for growth; however, this new found enlightenment appears arrogant in light of Fern's insecurities. In the midst of their struggles, Jeb and Fern must also deal with the disappearance of Angele 'Jeb' s adopted daughter. He must retrieve her from the dangerous young man who has played on her vulnerabilities and lured her away promising to fill the emptiness she feels. Earthly Vows takes a look at how easily those we think we know so well can fall into behaviors and make decisions we would never expect. Through this, Hickman shows how broken circles can be redeemed and how we can find beauty in life's flaws. |
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