By Michelle De Bruin
Christian Historical Romance
Paperback & ebook, 290 Pages
November 19th 2019 by Mantle Rock Publishing
Living a life of faith isn’t going the way Logan and Karen hoped until some special visitors arrive and offer them their future back.
Karen Millerson dreamed of teaching high school but now finds herself boarding with a farm family and teaching country school. She is engaged to marry Logan De Witt and is getting prepared to share in ministry with him. But when she gets blamed for the tragic fire at the school, Karen’s future grows uncertain.
Logan De Witt is working to clear his family’s name with the bank. But when he breaks his leg, hindering his ability to work the farm, Logan is faced with life-changing decisions. When his best friend can’t offer the help he requested, can Logan find a way to care for his family and court Karen at the same time before his love for her destroys all of them?
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Other Books in the Series
Hope for Tomorrow
By Michelle De Bruin
Christian Historical Romance
Paperback & ebook, 294 Pages
October 23rd 2018 by Mantle Rock Publishing LLC
When Logan De Witt learns of his father’s sudden death, he returns home to the family’s dairy farm. During his stay, he discovers his mother’s struggle with finances and his younger sister’s struggle with grief. Concern for his family presses Logan to make the difficult decision to leave his career as a pastor and stay on the farm. As a way to make some extra money, he agrees to board the teacher for their local school.
Karen Millerson arrives from Chicago ready to teach high school but her position is eliminated so she accepts the role of country school teacher. Eager to put her family’s ugly past behind her, Karen begins a new career to replace the trust she lost in her own father who had been in ministry when she was a child.
Logan and Karen both sense a call from the Lord to serve him, but neither of them expected that one day they would do it together.
Can Karen learn to trust again? Will Logan lay aside his grief in exchange for God’s purpose for his life?
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Top Ten Tips in Teaching at a Country School and Running a Dairy Farm
This list is based on the real-life experiences of the heroine and hero of the Tomorrow series, Karen Millerson and Logan De Witt.
- Young women receiving their training to teach school should understand that they can only teach as single women. Marriage means the end of a career. This is because school administrators want to encourage married women to set a high priority on their own homes and families.
- Strict rules about social conduct accompany the teaching position. A single woman teacher cannot loiter in the downtown ice cream store or keep company with men who aren’t relatives. They also have to be home between the hours of 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. unless attending a school function. They are not allowed to dress in bright colors, dye their hair, or marry during the term of their contract.
- If the teacher of a country school happens to get caught alone in the school with a large group of students during a wind storm, she should have the children crouch down in the front of the room away from the windows and under the teacher’s desk since the building has no basement.
- When half of the children in the school belong to one family as siblings and cousins, and their mothers are unsupportive of the teacher’s methods, the teacher must be prepared to endure the attempts of these mothers to control the school and to damage her reputation as a teacher.
- If a group of boys continually instigate trouble during school hours, the teacher should assign them cleaning duties as punishment.
- In the management of a dairy farm, a man must make sure and milk the herd of seventeen dairy cows at the same time every day, in the morning and in the evening.
- Keep a sturdy stool with three legs available in order to achieve the best leverage for reaching under a cow to squeeze milk from udders.
- If the banker should decide to call on the farmer on a winter morning while the farmer is confined to the house because of a cast on his broken leg due to a recent fall, the farmer should satisfy the banker’s demands for payment with money he made from his fiancée’s room and board. (You will have to read the whole story to see what that is all about).
- Holstein cows are happiest and produce the best milk in the winter on a diet of hay harvested straight from the field the previous summer and stored in the haymow directly overhead.
- Mama will eventually want to move to town, so the bachelor farmer should make sure to set her up with her own bank account before he decides to sell his farm and get married.
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Michelle De Bruin lives in Iowa with her husband and two teenage sons. She has a bachelor’s degree in Religion with a Christian Ministry emphasis, and in Music. Michelle is the spiritual services provider for an organization that offers services for people with mental and physical disabilities. She has been a member of American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW) since 2015. Michelle writes inspirational historical romance about people who live in rural communities. Characters that bring to life the delights of farm and small-town living, whispers of Dutch heritage, and Christian faith make Michelle’s stories distinct. A romantic at heart, Michelle is always on the lookout for glimpses of God’s love through the window of a good story. Her first book, Hope for Tomorrow, released in 2018. The sequel, Promise for Tomorrow, released November 2019.
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