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In A Stranger's Arms (2000)

by Deborah Hale(Favorite Author)

3.61 of 5 Votes: 2

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review 1: Deborah Hale writes with a warm, sure understanding of her characters and a flare for drawing the reader into times gone by. In a Stranger's Arms is filled with captivating characters and Southern flavour and is definitely a good read for historical romance buffs. Set in the American South immediately following the Civil War, the novel is a pleasing cross between Pride and Prejudice and Gone with the Wind. Heroine Caddie Marsh is an embittered widow who returns to her war-ravaged plantation home with little more than a horse and wagon, her stubborn pride, and the determination to build a good home for her two children. The day she arrives at Sabbath Hollow, she meets a Yankee stranger, Manning Forbes, who bears a shocking resemblance to her dead husband killed in the w... morear. The stranger rescues her from a sticky situation and offers her an outlandish proposal. Throughout the novel, Caddie is forced to search her heart and confront both the role her Southern pride played in her failed marriage and her growing feelings for one of the 'enemy.' A good man, Manning Forbes has a dark secret of his own, a secret that drew him to Sabbath Hollow and dictated his proposal. Lots of twists and turns to keep you reading!
review 2: In a Stranger's Arm by Deborah Hale is an excellent post Civil War novel. Her characters are well though t out and well described. They come off the page and into your heart before you know it. Deborah Hale loved the movie Summersby and took the idea of a look alike man coming home in place of the husband and expanded on it. Caddie Marsh is coming back to Marsh Plantation and the birthright of her son Templeton and daughter Varina. She is hoping the plantation is still standing and that she can somehow make a go of it. Her husband was killed in battle but he was long gone from her heart when she caught him in bed with Ladone Swade. I[pm finding the house still stood, a shock awaited her. Lon Marsh, her brother-in-law, has moved into the house and plans to make Sabbath Hollow his own. Although he was given land nearby, he views Sabbath Hollow as him. He has also married Ladone Swade and she is living there too. The first thing she does is to tell Lon he and Ladone had to leave, especially her. She is backed up by a returning soldier, Manning Forbes. Manning Forbes is returning from the War; but he fought on the Union side. He keeps this part a secret as long as he can since he is in the South. He has come to see what he could do to help Caddie and make sure she and her children were fine. He has money to invest in the plantation and runs it for her. He figures the best way to make sure they are fine is to marry her. Why does he feel he has to take care of her? Why does he look so much like her husband? Is he really Manning or is he Del? Can Caddie find the wherewithal to stand up to Lon on her own? What about the taxes due on Sabbath Hollow? If she looses the plantation, where will she and her children go? Where on the plantation is the family silver buried and is it still there? less

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