Abigail Bracey’s life was turned upside down when her father was
killed. He had been working for a dangerous counterfeiter. When he
told the man he could no longer pass out money for him, he was
murdered. A year later, Abigail’s mother died of pneumonia and a
broken heart. Abigail is also suffering from a broken heart. The man
she planned to marry, Dashiell Lassiter, disappeared on the day they
were to announce their intentions to her parents.
All these tragedies
have left Abigail embittered. She has lost her faith in God and her
only desire is for revenge for her father. When Mr. Welch, with the
Secret Service, asks for her help in locating the counterfeiter,
Fletcher Pitch, she leaps at the chance. Pitch is looking for his son
who is in hiding with his aunt after his mother’s death. The secret
service believes she’s in a small town in Nebraska. Abigail will go
there as a schoolteacher and try to identify the boy. The Secret
Service not only wants to protect the boy, but see a tintype of Pitch
so they can identify him.
Although Abigail is
eager to go, she’s not pleased to find the agent she will be
working with is Dashiel Lassiter. For his part, he still cares for her and doesn’t
want to put her in danger.
This is an exciting
story capped by a terrible blizzard. The author did a good job making
the background come to life. I enjoyed the description of how the
teachers must be very correct during school hours.
Abigail and Dashiel
are characters you enjoy spending time with. I thought Abigail’s
struggle with her faith was realistic and well done. She realized
that cutting herself off from everything, including her faith, was
making her an embittered old woman before her time.
I received this book
from Barbour Books for this review.
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