
The Fire in Ember
A Novel
Zondervan · Print & ebook · January 22, 2011
John Timmons’ life is planned and orderly.
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- Who it’s for
- A familiar blend of faith, romance, and western texture, paced for getting comfortably absorbed.
- Genres
- Christian Westerns, Western Romance, Christian Historical Romance
- Published
- Zondervan, January 22, 2011
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John Timmons’ life is planned and orderly. He cares for his mother and four younger brothers, and their future depends on him to keep their Colorado ranch profitable. Ember Farrar (Bert) has run away from her lawbreaking family in search of a new life. But, when she attempts to return a horse that her brother had stolen, ranch hands believe she is a thief and a boy and they plan to hang her. John, who is also a deputy marshal, breaks up the hanging.
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After paying for the stolen horse, he takes the boy home to work off the debt. Later he learns Bert is a girl who refuses to tell him who she is and why she possessed a stolen horse. When ranchers report stolen cattle, Bert is a natural suspect. John is touched by Bert’s sweet spirit and natural gift of music. Surely she’s not a cattle thief. Bert fears for their lives when she is forced to either help her brothers steal or put the Timmons in danger. When John thinks Bert has betrayed him, he ignores God and turns revengeful. Will John learn who Bert truly is? Will their lives ever return back to normal?
Why It Clicks
A familiar blend of faith, romance, and western texture, paced for getting comfortably absorbed.
Come here for
- sustained narrative immersion
- Christian western romance
Expect
- gentle emotional warmth
- historical-romance cadence
Where it sits
| Christian Historical Romance | 56% |
|---|---|
| Christian Westerns | 49% |
| Western Romance | 39% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Christian Historical Fiction
- Christian Romance
- Christian Westerns
- Authors
- DiAnn Mills, Laural Merlington, Zondervan
- Publisher
- Zondervan
- Published
- January 22, 2011
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Christian Historical Fiction