Deep in the Heart of Trouble by Deeanne Gist
Deep in the Heart of Trouble by Deeanne Gist
June 2008
Bethany House
ISBN: 978-0764202261
www.deeannegist.com
You know what it’s like when you finish a book and you still think about the heroine? It’s like you’ve lost track of a dear friend and you wonder what she’s doing now. Think Scarlet O’Hara, Jo March, Elizabeth Bennet. Essie Spreckelmeyer from Courting Trouble is one of those characters you don’t forget. You admired her courage, her flair for life. And then, too soon, the book was over.
Well, she’s back and she was worth waiting for. Irrepressible as always, she lives her life according to her own strong belief in God and the quirky double standard of behavior she doesn’t realize she has.
Since being “ruined” by a drifter, Essie has devoted her life to her Velocipede Club and helping her father run Sullivan Oil Company. She doesn’t want or need a man in her life. It will take a strong man with a sense of humor to tame her.
Tony Bryant Morgan considers himself up to the task. Disinherited by his father and accused of murdering his brother, Tony earns the respect of the town and the love of Essie, but it won’t do him much good since he is due to appear before Hanging Judge Parker in Fort Smith. Trying to save Tony, the townswomen turn to the wisdom found in romance novels.
As always, Deeanne’s research is impeccable. The vocabulary fun, right down to running down to the Slap Out, a store you go to when you’re slap out of something.
You’ll love revisiting Corsican, Texas, but it’s changed. Oil has turned it into a boomtown. New people are moving in. There’s a derrick in every backyard. But old-fashioned values still exist. Maybe that’s not so bad.
~ Reviewed by Jodi Payne
