A Distant Dawn, Jane Peart
A Distant Dawn, Jane Peart
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A Distant Dawn

Author: Jane Peart

Narrator: Christine Williams

Unabridged: 7 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 10/05/2010

Synopsis

Following the death of their parents, twenty-four-year-old Sunniva Lyndall and her younger brother, Tracy, leave the comforts and safety of their Ohio Valley home to travel west to California, With excitement, determination, and the money they received from the sale of the family farm, they head for Missouri and the wagon train that will take them west. But Sunny and her brother quickly learn the ways of the West the hard way when a con-man swindles them out of their money. Without means to buy supplies, California seems out of the question. But being stuck in Missouri is not what Sunny had planned for their future. Employment with the Pony Express seems to be the only available option. With Tracy as express rider and Sunny as station manager, it looks like they will soon earn enough to resume their journey. But unplanned adventure in the saddle of the Express awaits Sunny with the greatest challenge of her young life. Will her strong spirit be enough to see her through -- or is the happiness that California promised a dream that will never be fulfilled?

About Jane Peart

Jane Peart was a best-selling novelist in both the secular and Christian markets. Her beloved Brides of Montclair Series is one of the longest continuous series on the market. She also published the American Quilts Series, and the Orphan Train Trilogy.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mary on January 21, 2025

Sonny, lost her mother when she was little and she helped her father raise Tracy. When Sonny was 17 her father remarried and left Sonny with her brother, another child and neglecting stepmother. When Sonny was 22 she and Tracy set out for California but being greenhorns they were swindled out of the......more

Goodreads review by April on April 15, 2011

Sunny and her brother, Tracy, leave their home in Ohio Valley to head west to a new beginning. But in Missouri they fall victim to a con and their plans are postponed. Sunny tries to make the best decisions for her and her brother, but sometimes they are just not easy. A few men appear and she needs......more

Goodreads review by Lynnda on August 25, 2010

A Distant Dawn is the first book I've read by author Jane Pert. I can see why she was so successful. She took the typical story of a young woman who sold everything to go to California but got swindoled before she got past Missouri and turned it into a lively tale of courage, hard work, and discover......more

Goodreads review by Fay on December 25, 2015

A good read about a woman's life on the frontier during the pony express days. A Christian romance that could have gone of of two ways. I guessed at the ending to almost the end.......more

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