When Riley Morgan returns home after fighting in the War Between the States, he is excited to see his parents and fiancee again. But he soon learns that his parents are dead and the woman he loved is married. He takes a job at the Wilcox School for the blind just to get by. He keeps his heart closed off but a pretty blind woman, Annie, threatens to steal it. When a greedy man tries to close the school, Riley and Annie band together to fight him and fall in love. But when Riley learns the truth about Annie, he packs and prepares to leave the school that has become his home and the woman who has melted his heart. Will he change his mind and find the love he craves? Or will stubbornness deprive him from the woman he needs?
Through painful circumstances, Riley and Annie learn that the loving and sovereign hand of God cannot be thwarted
Through painful circumstances, Riley and Annie learn that the loving and sovereign hand of God cannot be thwarted
From having the leading female character go from being a pickpocket to a pretend blind woman to a new Christian who could see, Mrs. McDonough created an inspiring book that I believe could easily be loved by all readers. Even though Annie was portrayed as such a nice woman it was refreshing to see that she made mistakes also. The book showed that inconvenient and sometimes heart-breaking things happen to Christians, but that God always has a plan and a better way for us than we what he had planned. Riley returned from the war to find both his parents dead and his fiancé a married woman, but God had a better plan for him than having him marry immediately. He instead helped Riley realize that even though blind people have some limitations they are completely capable to do most things by themeselves. God also allowed Riley and Annie to get married. This was a wonderful book, and I would recommend it to any of my followers.
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