The Price - Circle of Destiny, Bk 1 Author:Jim Kraus, Terri Kraus The Price is the first in a historical four-book fiction series about the California Gold Rush by the writing team of Jim and Terri Kraus. When the lure of gold pulls Joshua Quittner away from the small church he is pastoring, he must choose between material wealth and peace with God. Only when he discovers the true meaning of love and sacrifice... more » does Joshua find true fulfillment.
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The Price is husband-and-wife team Kraus' first entry in what looks to be a likable four-volume series, Circle of Destiny, chronicling the fortunes of four Harvard classmates in the mid-nineteenth century. It follows the unpredictable life of Joshua Quittner, son of a pioneer preacher, whose scholarly ways earn him his primitive Ohio community's support to study at Harvard's famous seminary. The catch is that he must return to Ohio to take up his father's ministry, which is hard to do after he's heard Ralph Waldo Emerson talk of a universal religion and met liberated, would-be physician Hannah Collins. News of the gold strike in California fires his wanderlust, and he strikes off to find his fortune, leaving lots of disappointed folks back in Ohio.
The Krauses do solid work; they may be the next Brock and Bodie Thoene.