Crystal N. (gadgetgoddess) reviewed on
Helpful Score: 8
I loved this book. It is set in 1916. When free-thinking Roberta Jewett returns to her hometown of Camden, Maine, she discovers that small town folk consider a divorced woman little more than a prostitute. Condemned by her mother and scorned by neighbors, she nonetheless perseveres in her struggle to forge a good life for her girls and herself. Behaving like no " respectable" woman would, she gets a job as a county nurse, learns to drive, and buys her very own Model T. Enbittered by her painful marriage to an unfaithful husband, she has no intention of being any man's victim again. So when widowed carpenter Gabriel Farley begins work renovating her house, Roberta's first response to him is blatant resentment. But Gabriel's quiet vibrant masculinity soon finds a way to soothe Roberta's heart. In the ultimate test of will and devotion she must depend on the man she has grown to love and summon the courage to stand up to an entire town.
