Running HomeA cast of unforgettable characters!!
Clara, a girl of privilege being the daughter of Lord and Lady Reynolds, having recently backed out of her engagement with Charles, a man her mother felt had all the right traits, but something happened to show Clara he was not the man she first thought he was.
At the last minute, since the wedding would not be taking place, she traveled from Yorkshire England with her parents to India, a place her father always wanted to return to. She went to try to get away from gossip and the lies Charles had created to overshadow the truth of his inappropriate behavior towards Clara that caused her to break off the engagement three weeks before the marriage was to take place. India was her new beginning.
Harmi, a child Clara rescued upon first arriving in India and her mother Hana forever indebted to Clara for the rescue of her child and herself…
Clara had a loving, progressive, kind hearted father and a snotty, self-righteous, bigot for a mother, a farm girl who married into money, and it was under these circumstances that she was raised, being more like her father than her full of drama mama.
Captain Manford, friend or foe – from his vibration the conclusion was foe. Something about him reminded her…
Mr. Borah, the owner of the tea plantation just across the road from the home of Clara’s parents. After meeting her at their welcome ball with full knowledge of how she had rescued a child of one of his workers, there was something about her… It seemed an immediate attraction began to form as he rescued her once she fled from the dance floor away from Captain Manford but that was not to be the last time he rescued her.
The underlying chasm that stood between them, was skin color and what seemed the inborn divisiveness of tradition, called bigotry
Somehow their lives were all interwoven in such ways that brought this story to a surprising climax. Not only that, but there were stories inside of stories in this page turner, all connected. An engaging, well written book, with well developed characters and a storyline that moved you swiftly through one crisis after another, as the lives of each character was intimately exposed.
Love is a beautiful thing, something to think about as you go about your day touching the lives of the people in your daily grind.
Reviewed by: Connie Jordan
December 17, 2015
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