Across the Years (Desert Roses #2) [Paperback]

Tracie Peterson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2003

Book 2 of DESERT ROSES. The last ten years have been difficult for Ashley Reynolds--first her parents disowned her because of her choice of spouse, war tragically took his life, then she discovered she would bear his child. Living with her grandfather and raising her daughter, Ashley Reynolds has finally found an element of peace while working as a Harvey Girl in Winslow, Arizona. When a crew of architects come to build a massive resort hotel, bringing a mysterious man into her life, her world unexpectedly changes.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Across the Years will tug at your heartstrings." -- Rendezvous, Dec. 2002

"Judith Pella superbly interweaves the struggles of the Hayes sisters with human and divine love, so real it is palpable." -- Historical Novels Review, May 2003

About the Author

Tracie Peterson is a full-time author who has written or co-written over fifty novels in both historical and contemporary genres, including the WESTWARD CHRONICLES, the YUKON QUEST and the SHANNON SAGA series.

Tracie also teaches writing workshops at a variety of conferences on subjects including inspirational romance and historical research. She and her family live in Montana.

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Bethany House Publishers (January 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764225189
• ISBN-13: 978-0764225185
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #331,577 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Tracie Peterson is the bestselling, award-winning author of more than eighty-five novels. Tracie also teaches writing workshops at a variety of conferences on subjects such as inspirational romance and historical research. She and her family live in Montana.

Visit Tracie's web site at: http://www.traciepeterson.com

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sharing the Struggle of Finding Faith in God, April 25, 2003

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Christian Observer (Manassas, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Across the Years (Desert Roses #2) (Paperback)

This is the second volume in the Desert Roses series. Ashley Reynolds was a "Harvey Girl," working in a Harvey's restaurant in Arizona. She lived with her grandfather and little daughter. She enjoyed her work and was regarded as one of Harvey's best. Her husband had been killed in WWI. She felt she could never find anyone who would measure up to the man she lost. Her daughter met an architect working on a Harvey project who was willing to share his interest in architecture with the little girl. Natalie encouraged this friendship. About the same time Ashley's grandfather was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer.

Throughout the story another struggle was raging - Grandfather and Natalie felt a firm faith in God but Ashley had questions which kept her from faith and church. How could God take her husband as he did? How could God let her grandfather have cancer? The mystery of the bearded architect was solved in an interesting and surprising way. This is a really good story and it shows a small section of history in the west as the Great Depression was spreading over the country. It also shares the struggle several people in the story experienced in finding faith in God.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Winslow, AZ holds both security and a shock., February 2, 2003

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Bonnie McKinzie (Garden Grove, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Across the Years (Desert Roses #2) (Paperback)

Tracie Peterson has captured the era just before the beginning of the great depression, circa 1930. A young widowed mom is working - supporting her 10 yr. old daughter while sharing a home with a grandfather who is estranged from the rest of his family.

When hurt and bitterness have built up a wall, it is very unlikely that a newcomer to town, a construction worker, will have a chance to court her, even though her daughter is playing matchmaker.

The central figure is a young, independent but sad woman who has decided that fate and God have chosen her lot of single mom. In spite of the faith of both her daugher and her grandfather, she will not attend church or believe. Her family has turned their backs on her, never even knowing that she has a child, so she determines to be single, sad and alone. Her daughter is determined to change all that.

Lies, deception, danger and tremendous intrigue are played out it this second book of Peterson's "Desert Roses" series.

Including lots of other people and circumstances, Tracie builds a tremendous plot that will hold a reader spellbound and unable to lay the book down.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great, September 1, 2003

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Eileen A Merry (Moran, MI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Across the Years (Desert Roses #2) (Paperback)

This one started a little slowly but picked up momentum as it went on. I went through many emotions as you read this story of lovers kept apart by parents who didn't understand that love goes past social standing.