A Noble Groom

by Jody Hedlund

2014 Carol Award Winner for Historical Romance

Michigan, 1880

Annalisa Werner's hope for a fairy tale love is over. Her husband failed her in every way and now his death has left her with few options to save the family farm. She needs a plentiful harvest. That, and a husband to help bring it in. Someone strong, dependable. That'll be enough. A marriage for love...that's something she's given up on.

So her father sends a letter to his brother in the Old Country, asking him to find Annalisa a groom.

Then a man appears: Carl Richards, from their home country of Germany and a former schoolteacher--or so he says. He's looking for work and will serve on the farm until her husband arrives.

With time running out, she accepts his help, but there's more to this man than he's admitting. He's also gentle, kind, charming--unlike any man she's ever known. But even as Carl is shining light into the darkness of her heart, she knows her true groom may arrive any day.


"Swiftly becoming a well-known contender in the world of Christian historical fiction, Hedlund skillfully taps into her own German heritage to develop this tale of Old World romance and masked identity set against the backdrop of a nineteenth-century German American community." -- Booklist

• ISBN10: 0764210475
• ISBN13: 9780764210471
• Publish Date: 1 April 2013
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
• Imprint: Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 366
• Language: English

Reviews

[ladygrey]

So, this wasn't a horrible book. It's overwritten a bit but that's not a terrible crime. It's definitely not like the sort of ridiculously stupid or offensive book that I usually DNF.

I just didn't like either of the main characters. Two chapters in, which maybe isn't fair. I was ok not really liking Annalisa because I figured I'd like Carl. But no. He's spoiled and entitled (literally) and the weak younger son who in most stories doesn't get the girl. Each character has flaws for them to overcome, I get it. But I want to enjoy reading about them along the way and I just wasn't interested in anything that happened to either of these characters along the way to their inevitable happily ever after.