CHRISTIAN ROMANCE (Book 1) : Embracing New Love (STANDALONE Short WESTERN Christian Fiction, FREE Christian Romance): CHRISTIAN ROMANCE

By Chris Raymont

Experience a STUNNING christian romance story with a HAPPY ENDING!

1892. Nearly the start of a new century, and a new life for Rachel. Her father has moved her out west, after the death of her mother, so he can take on a job in a frontier town. Everything here is different. Rachel has to get used to so much, and it seems the Lord has handed her much, much more than she can handle by herself.

In town she meets a young man full of confidence and swagger. There is an attraction she can't deny...until she sees the gun he wears on his hip and realizes that Jake Landers is a man of violence. She finds it hard to reconcile that with what she knows of Christian life. Until she hears him speak, and finds the gentle soul behind his words.

Violence does follow him, hot on his heels, and Rachel finds herself swept up into the middle of it. God will protect them, she's sure of it.

She just doesn't know what path that protection will lead her to.

I hope you enjoy my first ever christian romance story!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Chris Raymont
• Release date: Jun 29, 2015
• ISBN: 9781513061733

Book preview

Thanks – enjoy,

Louise Goddard

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Embracing new love,

The sky was purple and gold, the rich colors of sunset on the open prairie.  A long day of travelling and the settlement of Babylon was only just coming into view.  Rachel was glad the ride in the wagon was almost over.  Their belongings jangled in the back, tied down under tarps.  Papa sat beside her in the buckboard seat, for company, but he was the furthest thing from a conversationalist that could exist in these modern times.

1892.  Almost the new century.  Hard to believe she was going to get to see it.  The whole country moving into a new age.  The Lord had given them so much.

And taken away with His other hand.

She adjusted her bonnet to shade her eyes from the setting sun.  Strands of her honey brown hair had trailed out along the way.  Her plain yellow dress was the same color as the bonnet.  It wasn’t new anymore.  It had been new six months ago, for Mama’s funeral.  It was comfortable and in an odd way it reminded her of exactly what God had taken out of her life.  She wore it as often as she could, to remember.  Papa had a pocket watch with a photo of Mama in it.  Rachel hadn’t seen him look at it in a long time.

Nineteen years old, and all but alone in the world.  Mama had been her best friend.  Her long illness, and then her death, had been hard for Rachel to take.  It had wrecked her whole world.  Papa was cold and distant now.  A boy she’d liked at the time, back home, hadn’t been able to stand the sadness that had swept over Rachel and so he’d stopped coming around.  Then Papa had told her he was moving out west for a new job.

So here they were.

Deep down, she harbored a terrible anger toward him.  Everything had changed.  Everything was wrong now, and it was all his fault.

That might not be fair, but it was how she felt.  She blamed her father just like she blamed God.

Clutching the skirts of her dress in both fists she made herself think about something else.  About the new job Papa was going to take here in Babylon.  About what the people would be like here.  She wondered if there would be anybody here her age, or if the town would just be full of old people trying to make a living out here on the frontier of America.

Almost there, her father said as they made it to the edge of the town.  It was so unexpected to hear him speak that she actually jumped, trying to cover the motion by pretending to resettle herself in her seat.

The grassy terrain around the dirt road they had followed all the way from Termination gave way to dusty ground around simple wood-frame buildings.  There