Julia Darling never expected to cook for some cowboys in Wyoming, but when she breaks off her engagement in Salt Lake City, it's the perfect opportunity for her to escape. Determined to stick the job out, Julia faces her biggest challenge yet - letting go of borrowed light to find her own testimony. Set in the early 1900s, this is one romantic adventure you'll never forget!
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Julia Darling never expected to cook for some cowboys in Wyoming, but when she breaks off her engagement in Salt Lake City, it's the perfect opportunity for her to escape. Determined to stick the job out, Julia faces her biggest challenge yet - letting go of borrowed light to find her own testimony. Set in the early 1900s, this is one romantic adventure you'll never forget!
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Julia Darling is engaged to ?the perfect man? and isn't too happy about it. Ezra Quayle makes all the decisions and talks with her as if she were a child. Julia has just spent a year at the Fannie Farmer Cooking School and feels she knows a thing or two.
Younger sister Iris is getting married and Julia is preparing the food. When she sees how happy Iris and her new husband are, Julia becomes more ill at ease. She knows she must break the engagement but doesn't know how to broach the subject to her parents and Ezra.
While packing the last of Iris? belongings for her move to her new husband's home, Julia comes across a newspaper ad for a cook; the headline reads, ?Desperate Rancher.? The Wyoming stockman is looking for a cook for his ranch. Julia decides to apply before she gets cold feet.
When Paul Otto sends back a ticket and an advance on her first month's wages, Julia decides to take the plunge. Things are very different out West; within minutes, men are introducing themselves to her and she receives a marriage proposal the first day. When she arrives at the Otto ranch, things are more awful than she could have imagined.
The first half of this book was excellent; the accent was on relationship-building between the main characters. Unfortunately, the second part of this book had the strong scent of proselytizing. I now understand that a book from Cedar Fort, Inc. is an LDS (Mormon) publication.
The only other Christian-themed book I've read was THE MEASURE OF A LADY. The main character's religious beliefs were an integral part of the story without taking over the book. Unfortunately, that is not the case with this story.
The title has an interesting slant; it is referring to a person's faith must be their own, not a borrowed light from another. I enjoy Carla Kelly's books because the plots and characters? actions are so inventive. I am sorry to see that she has decided to become a writer of strongly accented religious fiction.
