Deanne Smith

Promises to Grace (Welcome Home Book 1) Deanne Smith

IS THERE REALLY A TIME TO KILL? Young Elizabeth believes there is, and that time is now. Eighteen-year-old Elizabeth Chamberlain has come to Wyoming with a single purpose - to avenge her family's brutal murders that she and her little sister Grace witnessed over three years ago in 1887. Armed with a hot flame in her soul, expert fighting skills, weapons and disguises of all sorts, will Elizabeth be able to exact vigilante justice on the killers so she can return quickly to Grace and her life in Missouri? Or will she be deterred by the people she encounters in Wyoming who test the beliefs she has held to so tightly since the day her world was destroyed? Will she win her fight against the emergence of long-buried feelings - faith, love, friendship, home - that these people bring about? Skeeter is a quirky and persistent street boy who resembles Elizabeth's brother and creates the first fissure in her hardened heart. Petra is a strong, motherly Christian woman who found power in forgiveness in her own tragic life. She gently works to restore Elizabeth's faith and reliance on God. Kitch is the only man who can crumble Elizabeth's heart-walls and let in the light of love. However, Kitch has a secret of his own that threatens to re-ignite the red flame of hatred in Elizabeth's soul and send her retreating into the isolation of distrust that has been her foundation for so long. Will these people help or hinder Elizabeth's quest for vengeance? Read this Christian historical fiction novel of western revenge and find out.