If you pick up the back of the book and it reads like this….

“Summer winds blow across the acrid, yet, beautiful western landscape, while Hannah, listlessly ponders which man to love.  Although her chores are calling her; the water must be drawn, the cows milked, and Father’s shoes shined for his trip to town, she pauses to dream about her future. She is simply torn between two loves.  Does she follow Luke, the rugged, wild, and handsome man of the forest? or his brother William, the quiet minister, who will always provide for her, but promises a life of mediocrity? “

If you encounter such “literature” i.e. supermarket romance novels minus the dirty details, you have stumbled upon Christian women’s all time favorite stories. Forget Desperate Housewives!   Historical Romantic Fiction is the book version of the lifetime channel without nudity, it’s a winner all around!  These books are always in one of three settings… the newly settled west, the english countryside, or small town USA.  It is always the same plot lines… a young heroine, her father’s favorite, trying to choose between staying near the homestead or running out west with the wagon train.  OR…. the “aging” not yet married eldest girl, who longs for life beyond her home, and falls in  love with the dashing new one room schoolhouse teacher.         

Christian women inhale them to escape their reality because it lifts you out of your humdrum sippy cup, casserole, and minivan existence into a simpler time!  What better way to rekindle your love for literature?!   So… if you have to buy a gift for a Christian gal and you just don’t know where to turn… be rest assured that anything with a title like “Ohio Bride” (if they or someone in their Bible Study  don’t already own it) will be a sure winner!!!  Bonus!!!!— If your Middle Schooler is beginning to like boys and boy bands, buy her one of these books and she can have romance and clean reading all in one place!