Patience (Brides of the West #6) (HeartQuest) [Large Print] [Hardcover]

Lori Copeland (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 6, 2004

Book 6 in the Brides of the West 1872

A HOLT Medallion Award-winning Author

Patience Smith only intends to wear Lenore's wedding dress for a few minutes, but when a kidnapper snatches her in a case of mistaken identity, she finds herself lost in the mountains of Colorado. Escaping her kidnapper, Patience stumbles upon an abandoned mining dugout and a lonely orphan. Patience has found herself a gold mine! Now if she can just get Denver City sheriff Jay Longer to help . . .

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Christian romance author Lori Copeland has published more than fifty-five novels since beginning her writing career in 1982. Lori and her husband, Lance, live in Springfield, Missouri, and have enjoyed more than 43 years together in marriage. They have three sons, three daughters-in-law, three grandsons, and one granddaughter (they admit to spoiling the only girl in the family just a little bit). --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 416 pages
• Publisher: Thorndike Press (October 6, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786268689
• ISBN-13: 978-0786268689
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #882,249 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

My husband and I live in the beautiful Ozarks. Our three sons, Randy, Rick and Russ live nearby so we get to enjoy our five grandchildren on a weekly basis. James, Joe, Josh, Gage and Audrey. Naturally I dote on the grandchildren! We also enjoy our many friends from our church and RV club.

Customer Reviews

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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Miss something at the very beginning, February 19, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Patience (Brides of the West, 1872, No. 6) (HeartQuest) (Paperback)

I was throughly enjoying the Brides of the West series until I got to this book. I am sure the rest of the story would have been great, but I could not get through the beginning for the story began to just tell a different past than what happened before. Such as Dylan was the one to bring the girls from Missouri when actually in Glory it was Jackson. Again it mixed Glory story with Ruth when Patience refer to Ruth shooting an elk and covering her and Dylan with it. It is as if neither Glory's or Ruth's story was told. They blended the two. After that I just was not into the book. The book lost it's appeal. I returned it to store for my money back I may read it sometime in the future but not right now.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars This is a RECYCLED story, folks!, November 23, 2004

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Birdy - See all my reviews

This review is from: Patience (Brides of the West, 1872, No. 6) (HeartQuest) (Paperback)

In reading "Patience", everything seemed sooooo familiar, like I'd already read it. When female convicts were hired to work in the mine, that did it! That's a pretty unique story development, so I was convinced that Ms Copeland, instead of giving us an original story, had recycled one of her older ones, and sure enough, she did--this is the SAME story as "Someone to Love" from 1995. Characters' names have changed, and the minor detail of how the girl obtains the mine, but that's it. What a rip-off! I'm disappointed in Ms Copeland.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars solid inspirational western romance, March 14, 2004

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Patience (Brides of the West, 1872, No. 6) (HeartQuest) (Paperback)

In 1873 Denver City, Colorado, a kidnapper abducts Patience Smith mistaking her for bride to be Lenore Hawthorn when the good natured lass agreed to don the wedding dress for its final fitting. Sheriff Jay Longer follows knowing the icy wintry mountains makes for a freezing dangerous trek.

Perhaps it is the hand of God, but the horse carrying the thug and Patience missteps throwing both humans to the ground. Patience gets up in an instant and flees into the frozen wasteland. Could God be guiding her for soon she finds shelter in the Mule Head gold mine. Inside she finds eight year old orphan Wilson as cold and scared as she except that Patience believes God is with both of them. They walk the forty-five minute trek to Fiddle Creek. In the town she tries to obtain help with excavating the gold from the mine she just left, but no one will dig in what has been cursed and haunted. When Jay arrives, Patience tries to persuade him to help her and Wilson with the mine. As the believer and the doubter fall in love, Jay wonders how someone so devout and optimistic could care for an acrimonious loner like him. Perhaps that is God?s miracle.

Though the pious Pollyanna seems overdone if pure faith can ever be overdone, fans with patience will enjoy this delightful ?Brides of the West? novel. The sixth book in the series stars an intriguing lead couple whose belief in God is so opposite that the audience knows that only divine intervention could bring them together in spite of their love for one another. Fans of inspirational western romances will enjoy Lori Copeland?s uplifting tale.

Harriet Klausner