The Tender FlameAfter a lifetime apart, a widow and a widower wonder if their hearts still harbor...the tender flame Grant Smith and Lydia Reynolds fell in love at a young age and their "tender flame" continued to burn. When President Polk suddenly announced that war with Mexico was inevitable and Grant, who had just graduated from West Point, is sent to Mexico, his plans to marry Lydia are put on hold. Lydia is grief stricken when she learns that Grant was wounded in battle and believed dead. After two years, Grant escapes from a Mexican prison and returns home to find that Lydia has remarried and is now living in the Northwest. Many years pass until they meet again, both now widowed, and realize that the "tender flame" has never gone out. Grant and Lydia come to realize that "As for God, His way is perfect." |
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User Review - judyg54 - LibraryThingA good story that spans over 30 years in the telling. It will begin in 1841, in the town of Montgomery Village, Maryland, and end out West in Oregon in 1874. It will show that the 'tender flame' that ... Read full review
Death of a beautiful romance is reborn anew.
User Review - Mary Thompson - Christianbook.comThis story takes the reader from great delight in a new love to great sadness as it is torn apart. Then, in God's great mercy, true love and romance is reborn through a child of love and promise. This ... Read full review
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| Title | The Tender Flame Mail Order Bride Series/Al Lacy, No 3 Issue 3 of Mail order bride series, Al Lacy |
| Authors | Al Lacy, JoAnna Lacy |
| Publisher | Multnomah, 1999 |
| ISBN | 1576733998, 9781576733998 |
| Length | 283 pages |
| Subjects | › › Fiction / Christian / Romance Fiction / Christian / Western Fiction / Romance / General Religion / General |
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