Waiting for Summers Return, Kim Vogel Sawyer
Waiting for Summers Return, Kim Vogel Sawyer
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Waiting for Summer's Return

Author: Kim Vogel Sawyer

Narrator: Barbara Caruso

Unabridged: 11 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/10/2008


Synopsis

Kim Vogel Sawyer pens an inspiring debut novel whose unforgettable characters resonate with emotional intensity and compelling authenticity. Suddenly all alone in 1894 Kansas, Summer Steadman can't find the employment she needs to settle near the fresh graves of her husband and four children. Bitter against the Lord and refusing to eat, she collapses in despair. Remembering his own painful loss, godly widower Peter Ollenbuger offers her food and shelter for tutoring his 10-year-old son.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Anne on October 17, 2015

Originally, I DNFed this at about 28%. The plot was slow, depressing, and boring. Summer, the heroine, had just lost all her family and had nobody left, nowhere to go and nothing to do. She has lost all faith and is ready to die and rejoin her beloved departed. While I sympathized with her, I got ti......more

Goodreads review by Angie on April 20, 2019

I really, really enjoyed this sweet, gentle romance. <3 I loved the fact that the emphasis was not on physical attraction but on the gradual knitting together of hearts as they grew to know each other. I liked the fact that they held back from the idea of a marriage of convenience but were still ver......more

Goodreads review by Amanda on December 12, 2017

Waiting for Summer’s Return This book reminded me very much of Janette Oke’s Love Comes Softly—yet it was also very different. Summer and Peter aren’t married like Clark and Marty were; rather, Peter has hired Summer to tutor his son, Thomas, and neither of them really have any intention of marrying......more

Goodreads review by Cathryn Dolly on July 17, 2013

ZOWEEE!! Mind-blowing how this book HEALS me ( cried many times and healed me same time!!!!!! This author and book has a wonderful way of capturing the hearkbreaking themes of loss/ changes ahead of them. The healing process is intersting between the characters and the community. There are possbil......more