In the 1880’s, Addie Loveland left her home and mama at the age of eighteen with a man who lived chasing wild horses. By the age of twenty-two, she is a widow. In the desperation of times when women had few options for supporting themselves, Addie is able to find work as a housekeeper even farther from her home in Texas.
Taking the available employment, Addie travels north to a remote and desolate ranch to tend the Brady family. The Brady’s are carrying sorrows of their own after the loss of wife and mother. Facing the challenges of daily survival on a homestead, bearing the burden of grief, and constantly being at odds with Tom Brady, Addie has to forge her way through the winter to get herself home to Texas in the spring.
And through her winter journey, she has a myriad of companions to keep her going. A dog Molly, who understands more than the human eye can see, Roy Albert, the neighbor, and the gray horse. The gray horse who haunts her dreams at night, beckoning for her to follow him. But what happens when Addie realizes he might not exist only in her dreams?
A spiritually uplifting story in which all human emotion can be found, from the joys of love, to the sorrows of badly behaved milk cows. Addie works to conquer the fear and loneliness of a woman on the ranges of Nevada, as she survives a life she doesn’t want to live. This is a story that tells us all, we are never as alone as we think. Winner of the bronze Will Rogers Medallion for Western Inspirational Fiction.
In the 1880’s, Addie Loveland left her home and mama at the age of eighteen with a man who lived chasing wild horses. By the age of twenty-two, she is a widow. In the desperation of times when women had few options for supporting themselves, Addie is able to find work as a housekeeper even farther from her home in Texas.
Taking the available employment, Addie travels north to a remote and desolate ranch to tend the Brady family. The Brady’s are carrying sorrows of their own after the loss of wife and mother. Facing the challenges of daily survival on a homestead, bearing the burden of grief, and constantly being at odds with Tom Brady, Addie has to forge her way through the winter to get herself home to Texas in the spring.
And through her winter journey, she has a myriad of companions to keep her going. A dog Molly, who understands more than the human eye can see, Roy Albert, the neighbor, and the gray horse. The gray horse who haunts her dreams at night, beckoning for her to follow him. But what happens when Addie realizes he might not exist only in her dreams?
A spiritually uplifting story in which all human emotion can be found, from the joys of love, to the sorrows of badly behaved milk cows. Addie works to conquer the fear and loneliness of a woman on the ranges of Nevada, as she survives a life she doesn’t want to live. This is a story that tells us all, we are never as alone as we think. Winner of the bronze Will Rogers Medallion for Western Inspirational Fiction.
