Remembered (Fountain Creek Chronicles, Book 3) (Paperback)

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Key Phrases: Miss Maudie, Mademoiselle Girard, Willow Springs (more...)

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"Remembered is a delightful read, well-researched and well-written." -- Lindsey Freitas, bookloons.com

"The characters will take you by the hand and lead you heart-first into their stories..." -- Roseanna White, christianreviewofbooks.com

Product Description

A touching historical romance set in Colorado of a woman searching for her father and finding love on the journey. Fountain Creek Chronicles book 3.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Bethany House (June 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764201107
• ISBN-13: 978-0764201103
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #138,130 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

• This is item 3 in The Fountain Creek Chronicles Series.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One for the Keeper Shelf ..., August 23, 2007

By	Delia Latham "Goldeneyes" (Okmulgee, OK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Veronique Girard is not a wealthy woman, but has enjoyed the trappings of wealth her entire life. But then her beloved mother dies, and Veronique almost immediately loses the security of her prestigious position. From beyond the grave, her maman pulls the strings that ensure Veronique will grant her dying wish: Leave Paris and go to America's rugged Colorado Territory in search of the father who abandoned both of them twenty-five years ago. Eased by a soft cushion of unmerited financial backing, Veronique packs her fashionable French wardrobe and heads west.

Jack Brennan is retiring from a fifteen-year career as a trail guide. Having suffered a tragic loss years earlier, and having finally found peace, he looks forward to settling down in or near Willow Springs, a growing town in the Colorado Territory. Jack's plans are to start up a new business hauling freight into the scattered mining towns surrounding his chosen place of residence.

What he hasn't counted on is being forced by unforeseen circumstances to escort a beautiful, innocent, feisty and demanding Frenchwoman into the dangerous mining communities, as well.

Tamera Alexander's third book in the Fountain Creek series paints a vivid picture of early American life. Her characters literally burst onto the pages - living, breathing and sizzling with energy. Ms. Alexander pens a riveting tale of heartbreak and healing, love and loss, honor and virtue. Profound spiritual lessons are expertly woven into the tale - without sermonizing or distracting from the storyline. Readers are relentless drawn in, charmed by the hero, amused and warmed by the heroine, and amazed by the number of completely real and believable supporting characters.

Remembered is a keeper that will most definitely be ... remembered!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sweet romance, June 1, 2007

By	C. Widman (CT) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Remembered is a beautiful story- my favorite so far of the Fountain Creek Chronicles! Veronique Girard has just lost her mother and is journeying to the Colorado territory (from France) to find her father, who left her 25 years before. Her innocence and naiveté are so refreshing. It is funny how she would interject and offer the definition of a word to try to figure out the local sayings and usages of certain words (though, after awhile it gets a little old and annoying).

Jack Brennan has been leading wagons west for the past fifteen years but he is ready for a change, ready to move on from his troubled past of losing his wife and son in a horrible accident. He had heard about Willow Springs and decides to settle there. He and Veronique get thrown together and from there the real story starts.

Jack and Veronique have great chemistry and rapport. Their conversations and the electricity of emotions that zing between them make for a sizzling, sweet romance. I can't wait to see what comes next in this series! A great read, don't miss out!!!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful western romance , June 11, 2007

By	Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews (#1 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

In 1870 France, Veronique Girard leaves the flower on the coffin containing her beloved mother Ariane while reflecting that she would prefer to ignore her deathbed promise to mamam. However, Veronique swore she would go to the Colorado Territory to find her father Pierre, who left them over a quarter of a century ago with a vow he would send for them; he never did.

Veronique adapts to the wildness of Colorado while hiring Jack Brennan to escort her from one Rocky Mountain mining town to another in her quest to find her papa. Jack wanted to refuse driving Veronique as the towns are dangerous, but the widowed supply hauler cannot leave her to her own devices. As they fall in love, he fears that emotion having grieved the deaths of his wife and child while she remains obsessed with finding Pierre and she has a childhood ami Christophe back in Paris.

The third Fountains Creek Chronicles (see REVEALED and REKINDLED) is a wonderful western romance starring two individuals from different lifestyles falling in love; feelings that neither desire the other. The story line brings out the rugged Reconstruction Era Colorado Territory especially when contrasted with Veronique's Paris upbringing. Veronique is a wonderful protagonist although she adjusts perhaps too easily to the Wild West while Jack struggles with survivor guilt compounded by having a second chance at love if he goes for it. Readers will remember Tamara Alexander's' fine tale of loss and redemption.

Harriet Klausner