Jewel of Promise (Treasure Quest Series #4) [Paperback]

Marian Wells (Author)

Book Description

As the nation splinters in two around them, will Alex and Olivia ever be together again?

In The Silver Highway, Olivia and Alex were confronted with a desperate effort to save the lives of runaway slaves. Torn between their Southern heritage and their convictions, they had to decide whether they would risk their lives to assist the Underground Railroad in its mission.

In Jewel of Promise, they face an even greater danger to their lives and their love. The escalating conflicts of the Civil War separate them from each other and from the friends they love. On the battlefield and on the homefront, Alex and Olivia must deal with crucial questions about their faith and their priorities.

Can they, as Christians, support this? And, given the brutality of the battle, will they ever see each other again?

Could she still believe the promise when everything spoke of horror and death?

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

size : 5.2 x 8

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Bethany House Publishers (May 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1556611277
• ISBN-13: 978-1556611278
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,124,118 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3.0 out of 5 stars Too much war, too little other....., October 29, 2005

By 

Bonnie McKinzie (Garden Grove, CA USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Jewel of Promise (Treasure Quest Series #4) (Paperback)

Olivia and Alex are back together miraculously, and maybe even more so, Matthew and Chrystal are together. The civil war is raging turning family against family. I suppose all the descriptions were necessary, but personally I am ready to move on to more peaceful scenes. That is the reason for the reduction of stars. Now if I can just get this series in some kind of order.....

5.0 out of 5 stars Exciting, emotionally satisfying Climax, July 31, 2002

By 

Varina M. (Scottsdale, Arizona USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jewel of Promise (Treasure Quest Series #4) (Paperback)

I don't know what happened to the review of this book that I wrote three months ago, but here goes again. This is the concluding book in the four-book Treasure Quest Series, following _Silver Highway_, which was set along the Mississippi River and in Pennsylvania during the late 1850's, _Colorado Gold_, which followed some of the characters west and introduced some new ones as the Civil War was beginning back East, and _Out of the Crucible_. In _Jewel of Promise_ we return to Pennsylvania and to the South as the Civil War begins. Alex and Olivia, who met and fell in love in _Silver HIghway_ are seen for the first time since that book, as they seek to do the little that they can to hold their splintering country together. As southerners, they love the soon-to-be-seceding states as their first home, but as seemingly unlikely recruits to the underground railroad who have come to know and love Quaker friends in the north, they cannot willingly follow their home states out of the Union. After a visit to Alex's family in South Carolina, whom Olivia had not previously met, they return northward amid obstacles created by the newly begun war. Alex and his friend, Mike, who has been recently piloting Alex's riverboat, the Golden Awl, become involved in the Union war effort. Olivia and Beth, a young woman from Kentucky who has run away from home and won Mike's heart, work on the homefront, which in this war is sometimes dangerously near the battlefields. Soon Olivia's brother, Matthew, and her Creole school friend, Crystal, return from the western territories as well, and their hope to remain reunited is tested sorely by the war. For all of these characters _Jewel of Promise_ is a story of hope (symbolized by the brooch that Alex gives Olivia), dangerous captures and escapes, fighting to help others amid hate, hard decisions about political loyalties and love, the difficulty sometimes of being honest with oneself and others, and the struggle to keep hope alive when circumstances appear hopeless. Wells evokes varied scenes at home and in battle and shows vividly how both the many continuing characters and the new ones, like Mike and Beth, grow gradually and believebly. I finished this book feeling sorry that the story was over and that I would not again see these characters whom I had come to care about so much that I had devoured the latter three books of the series in a week of constant reading. Still, Marian Wells had by the end accomplished all that she needed to in order to satisfy a reader's curiosity and anxiety about the characters' experience of the war, so even as I was sorry to leave the characters, I was happy that I had read the books. If you want an exciting historical novel with romance and the added dimension of Christian elements that grow naturally out of the characters, rather than seeming stuck in for their own sake without being necessary, then try the Treasure Quest Series.