Louisa is returning to Sweetwater Crossing to attend to the funeral of the father of a friend in Cimarron Crossing. The friend's mother gives Louisa the key to her husband's office and medical practice. BUT, on the way there, she encounters a man lying beside the road with a broken leg and nothing around him to indicate where he came from or where he was going. She loads him into the buggy and carries him with her into Sweetwater Crossing. The town is rather closed off to Louisa being a healer and able to help them with their physical ailments. The work before her is daunting because gaining the trust of the townspeople is a huge hurdle. She believes that the first hurdle is taking care of the man, Josh, whom she found on the side of the road and mending his broken leg. As she gets to know him, she finds she wants to help him with his quest to find a way to enlarge his grandfather's store's offerings. The one thing she encourages him to find a niche for himself that his grandfather would approve of.
Amanda Cabot is one of those authors a reader likes to read again and again. Her books are well-thought out and her faithful readers enjoy them immensely. While Against the Wind is part of a series, it stands alone fairly well. I am sure there are more cross-over characters than just Louisa and her sisters, but the sisters are the most important part of the series. This book is hard to put down and the way that Amanda has woven in the difficulties Louisa faces makes it all the more readable and engaging.
Five Stars, Two Thumbs Up, and a cup of your favorite tea in the tea room.
Revell Publishing provided the copy I read for this review. All opinions expressed are solely my own.
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