Two foreign worlds are drawn
together through the unlikely meeting of two young women
on the morning of their wedding day. Although
they do not speak the same language, they are drawn
together time and again in the meadow where they first
met. Outside this private meeting place, their
worlds are in crisis. Catherine is of the English
speaking colony in Acadia and Louise is of the French
Acadians. As their friendship deepens, so does
their understanding and faith in God. As they
meet each time in the meadow to study scriptures and
talk, they forge a bond that will soon be threatened.
They share their delight in both becoming pregnant and
having daughters. Sickness and the everlooming
war between the two colonies threatens this bond of
friendship. Soon one of them will be called to
make a great sacrifice. The following calamity
is incomprehensible and pulls at the heart strings of
the reader. How would you respond in the face
of such a generous sacrifice? My mother's heart
was wrenched time and again at the end of this novel
and I waited with great expectation for the sequel in
this series. It couldn't become available fast
enough as I hungered to know what the fate of these
two women and their families would be. An excellent
book in the wonderful tradition of Janette Oke.
The Sacred
Shore is the much awaited sequel to The Meeting
Place. I eagerly watched the store shelves
for this sequel as the ending in the prequel nearly
tore my heart out as I vicariously lived the anguish
of the main characters. The timid friendship began
and developed in the prequel is wrenched apart as the
French Acadians are torn from their homes, loaded on
inferior ships, and carted off to regions unknown.
Along with the banished Acadians is the beloved daughter
of Andrew and Catherine Harrow. She was lost among
the displaced Acadians God--only-knows-where over 18
years ago. The daughter of her dear friend, Louise,
was raised as Catherine's own daughter. Catherine
prayed that Louise looked on her daughter as her own
as well, raising her to love God. She wondered
if her birth daughter knew of her heritage and yearned
to hold her "first" mother in her arms as she yearned
to hold her. Only God knew where they really were
and how they were faring. Could Catherine leave
her lost daughter alone in God's capable hands?
Would her birth daughter make wise choices as she struggled
with her love and passions for the wild Jean Dupree
in the bayous of Louisiana? Would there be a reunion
in the plans of their loving God? What of this
conflicted wealthy man who threatened to take their
birth daughter from their welcoming arms the moment
they might have the chance to be reunited? Where
would their paths lead them as they face the daily struggle
to survive among the wild lands of Acadia? Read
the sequel, The Sacred Shore, to answer these
questions and many more enclosed within the pages.
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