Sarah’s Brass Token
Ciara GoldHistorical romance
Available from Champagne Books
ISBN: 1897261934
December 2006
| When Tabor Nolan road into Banjo, Texas, the first person he saw was Sarah Jones who was trying to make it home with a borrowed wagon and the corpse of her brother on the back. She was trying to dig a hole in the hard dirt to bury John, her brother who had just been hung for murder. No one in town would help her; she wasn’t sure how she would get him buried. Tabor offered her water and then completed the digging and burying of her brother. Sarah was, of course, skeptical of him because none of the townspeople would speak to her, advance her credit, or give her a job. She had no money and nowhere to go with her five-year-old son. This was a big problem because she was five months behind on her farm payments and was to be evicted at anytime. She suggested that Tabor keep on riding if he was looking for a place to settle down; he wasn’t sure Banjo was not the place to stay!
Tabor and Sarah had a future; Tabor was sure of that. When he started checking the story behind Sarah, he knew she needed help. After overhearing an agreement by the land office personnel and the town’s nasty saloon owner to take over her land, Tabor bought it himself and then set out to convince Sarah to marry him. Ms. Ciara Gold has written a wonderfully uplifting story about two people who are made for each other but are skeptical about a future because of things that happened in the past. The more Tabor pushed, the further Sarah ran! She was skeptical of any kindness he showed to her. Sarah’s Brass Token is an incident which, though seemingly insignificant, becomes a thread which unifies the entire story. The initial offering of the token was an insult; the overall theme proves otherwise. Likewise, Ms. Gold uses the sub-characters in such a way that the story is greatly enhanced. I loved this story from the beginning; I enthusiastically recommend it!
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Reviewer: Brenda Talley |
