Custard Pumpkin by Claire
(2024)(Book 34 in the Old Timey Holiday Kitchen series)
A novel by Marisa Masterson
Their joint cause allows them to drift apart. Can a mystery create a bond of love between them?
For Claire's small German village, it is a black summer. Typhoid hits the townspeople and surrounding farms. With Claire's parents dead, she struggles to know how she will survive.
When a call for volunteers goes through her part of Germany—a chance to settle in Michigan and Christianize the local tribe—she seizes the opportunity. She hopes to forge a new future--one filled with possibility rather than starvation.
As a single woman, she must travel as the unpaid servant to the only other couple going from her village, the young preacher Hans Mueller and his wife. Unfortunately, Claire's prospects change radically when the man's wife perishes in the epidemic. The reverend offers marriage as a way for Claire to travel with him. Reluctant but determined, she agrees.
She and her husband arrive in a new land carrying their old grief. Hans has not left behind his grief for the wife he so recently lost. He throws himself into the work of building the settlement for their community. Claire is at a loss on how to be a wife to a man who does not want one. Instead, she spends her time with women from the Chippewa tribe.
Mischief and then outright vandalism threaten the settlement. Are the Chippewa—the people Claire views as friends—responsible? What can stop the sudden surge of hate that springs up in the missionary community founded to spread the love of Christ?
Finally, Claire and Hans are united in a way not even their convenient marriage had managed to do. They are determined to discover who wants to drive away the German immigrants, but at what cost? One or both might lose their life.
Discover how custard pumpkin plays a role in not only bringing peace and forging a bond between the Chippewa and the German settlement, but also winning the heart of Claire’s groom.
Sink into a comfortable spot and enjoy this sweet historical romance today.
Genre: Inspirational
For Claire's small German village, it is a black summer. Typhoid hits the townspeople and surrounding farms. With Claire's parents dead, she struggles to know how she will survive.
When a call for volunteers goes through her part of Germany—a chance to settle in Michigan and Christianize the local tribe—she seizes the opportunity. She hopes to forge a new future--one filled with possibility rather than starvation.
As a single woman, she must travel as the unpaid servant to the only other couple going from her village, the young preacher Hans Mueller and his wife. Unfortunately, Claire's prospects change radically when the man's wife perishes in the epidemic. The reverend offers marriage as a way for Claire to travel with him. Reluctant but determined, she agrees.
She and her husband arrive in a new land carrying their old grief. Hans has not left behind his grief for the wife he so recently lost. He throws himself into the work of building the settlement for their community. Claire is at a loss on how to be a wife to a man who does not want one. Instead, she spends her time with women from the Chippewa tribe.
Mischief and then outright vandalism threaten the settlement. Are the Chippewa—the people Claire views as friends—responsible? What can stop the sudden surge of hate that springs up in the missionary community founded to spread the love of Christ?
Finally, Claire and Hans are united in a way not even their convenient marriage had managed to do. They are determined to discover who wants to drive away the German immigrants, but at what cost? One or both might lose their life.
Discover how custard pumpkin plays a role in not only bringing peace and forging a bond between the Chippewa and the German settlement, but also winning the heart of Claire’s groom.
Sink into a comfortable spot and enjoy this sweet historical romance today.
Genre: Inspirational
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