A Hopeful Heart - Book

My Aunt let me borrow a book titled A Hopeful Heart by Kim Vogel Sawyer. It was pretty good as far as romance novels go. I guess you'd classify it as a romance novel. In this novel, several young women travel from the city to Kansas to a school for ranchers, in which they're supposed to learn how to become ranchers as well as the wife of a rancher and will then be married off to men in the area. It's not as barbaric as it sounds, I promise. It teaches women as well as men the value of each other and the way of life the Bible teaches us to live. It was an amazing book to say the least! When I first read the description, I was like "this sounds like some 1920's bull." However, after getting started and realizing that the woman who owned the school wanted the women to learn to be independent. Each woman had a reason for being there, whether it was because they were trying to escape an arranged marriage or because she was no longer rich and so a rich man wouldn't accept her without a dowry. You know how it was back in the day. It's still like that in a lot of places. A rich man/woman won't marry someone of the opposite sex unless they're rich as well. Anyway, the women do learn a lot and while most romance novels end on a happy note, so does this one. I won't tell you what happens though. You'll have to read it for yourself!