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Saturday, September 10, 2016 The Loyal Heart by Shelley Shepard Gray ©2016 Lone Star Hero's Love Story, Book 1 Centered in two locations, an officer POW camp in Ohio and two years later at the Texas home of an officer's widow. Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a loyal spirit within me. Psalm 51:10 Miranda Markham: I have lost so much in my life ~ my husband to war, my reputation to rumors, my solitude becoming a prison. Nowhere to turn, so little to look forward to ~ a dim day indeed. Robert Truax: The Civil War has ended. Regathering hope for many lost. I was with Phillip Markham near the end of his life. He loved his wife Miranda so ~ regaling her virtues to us, her kindness and concern for others. We five made a pact to uphold those left behind. I am to see about Mrs. Markham, whose home known as the Iron Rail is now a boardinghouse. Winter 1867. Hostility and contention nurture mistrust along the Strand in Galveston, Texas, crowding out faith and rebuilding. There is some repetition within the story as different characters are told what is happening. Mrs. Markham is taunted in public as if she doesn't exist. Being alone without just cause, labeled from opinion causes her to use caution in trust. Law enforcement initially does not give a positive response. A woman alone, choices without funding beyond her own means and decisions; without a spokesperson to seek truth in place of hearsay. Thank you Fiction Guild for a copy. This review written in my own words.

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Miranda Markham is having a rough time, and has seriously considered taking her life, she can’t take it any more, but who is sending the letters that are pulling her down. She also has to deal with her late husbands, Lieutenant Phillip Markham a Confederate Officer in the Civil War, Mother and Sister. They are angry and nasty women, but do they have a right, the house they want back was built by Phillips father, and has always been their home. There is some help on the horizon for Miranda when Robert Truax, a Second Lieutenant, and friend of Phillips. Unknown to Miranda the men Phillip served with made a pack to help each other families if the unimaginable happened. So when word reaches the men Robert is sent to look into the situation, and you will not believe how a southern city of Galveston, Texas is treating a war hero’s widow! Will help come in time to save Miranda and her beloved help that run her boarding house with her? Who is so evil to want to take her home, when she has actually made the ultimate sacrifice? Answers are here and you are going to be surprised why this is happening, or maybe not, but once that first page is turned you will not want to put it down. I received this book through Net Galley and the Publisher Zondervan, and was not required to give a positive review.