A Place Called Home (The Women's West Series, Book 3)

Elizabeth Grayson

Feb 2015 · The Women's West Series Book 3 · ePublishing Works!

About this ebook

When Indians kill her husband on the trail to Kentucky, Livi Talbot and her two young children bury him then continue their trek on the Wilderness Road to what David promised would be their new home.

While Livi settles into the wilderness cabin David built with his own hands, Reid Campbell, David's best friend and Livi's nemesis, arrives. A wanderer who spends more time with Indians than whites, Reid produces a document stating all holdings revert to him, in the case of David's death.

Reid insists Livi and the children return to Virginia, but Livi refuses. She's too far along in her pregnancy with David's last child, to travel. Summer ensues, filled with hard work, danger from Indian raids and a constant battle of wills between Livi and Reid.

As winter deepens, Reid helps Livi deliver David's son. Reid knows he should gift the cabin and land to Livi and walk away, but his heart has finally found a family and a place called home.

REVIEWS:
"...stirs the reader's emotions. A story of a remarkable women's desire to forge her own destiny and follow her heart. A novel to remember." ~Kathe Robin Romantic Times

"...keeps you reading to the exclusion of all else. This is probably the best book on the period I have ever read." ~Rendezvous

"This lady can spin a tale of historical magic. She does that and more in this beautiful story of Livi Talbot and her long road to happiness." ~The Readers' Voice

THE WOMEN'S WEST SERIES, in series order
So Wide the Sky
Color of the Wind
A Place Called Home
Painted by the Sun
Moon on the Water
Bride of the Wilderness

Ratings and reviews

Olivia "Livi" Talbot left Virginia with her family she did not know what kind of an adventure she had signed up for. Nor was I quite prepared for what she and the family went through. She was raised into a family that had servants and the women did not work. She married David Talbot whom was a blacksmith. So she learned how to work but still was not quite where she needed to be when she started her trip to Kentucky. In the end she did become the woman that she needed to be for her family in Kentucky. She toughened up and learned how to take care of things. Reid Campbell is a man who fits in with no one except for David Talbot. He is the person that kept encouraging him to go west and find land. That land is where Livi and David were headed too when David was murdered. Livi managed to stay strong and keep her family together and finish out the trip. Reid is a man who thinks a lot and feels very beholden to things in life. He is an adventurer who is caught off guard at the news of his best friends death. Reid feels that he needs to take care of Livi and the kids because that is what David would have wanted. Both Livi and Reid have never gotten along so the story has a lot of arguing between two stubborn people. Some of the things that happened I did manage to guess but several caught me off guard. There is no way I would guess that would have happened. And as some of the bad things that happened I kept hoping please don't let this happen to them they have been thorough a lot already. It had a lot of action and adventure in it as well as some romance. All around pretty good read. I only put it down because I did have things I had to go do. I received this book for free from eBook Discovery. I voluntarily review this book. This is my honest review. The opinions in this review are 100% my own.

An incredibly powerful story that encompasses the ability of one woman to break out of her predetermined mold to become a person that stands for what she believes and to fight for those she loves. As with all this author's writing, the book is well written with beautiful descriptive passages and a plot that left me sitting on the edge of my chair. I found that I want unable to put the book down once I started as I became totally engrossed in Livi's struggles. David's death at the early stages of their travels to Kentucky leaves Livi with no choice other than to press on, especially as she has nothing to go back to. Getting to her destination proves to be more daunting than she could even have believed, but with her young son Tad at her side, giving words of wisdom far beyond his years, she breaks through every barrier facing her. When they finally arrive at their destination and discover that David has already put up a cabin for them, Livi is relieved, only to have it dashed when his friend and partner, Reid, appears on the horizon, claiming that with David's death the land claim and cabin belong to him. A battle of wills ensues, but as so many before them have found, the boundary lines between love and hate are very finely drawn. This amazing book is a standalone and comes to a beautiful and hopeful conclusion. I received this book for free from eBook Discovery. I voluntarily post this review. This is my honest review.

This was an epic read filled with every emotion you can imagine! Livi was such a strong character and so very, very brave. I felt her grief and tears when David was killed. I could see the horrors she and her children experienced along their journey to follow David's dream...... And Reid had such a tortured soul and it took a woman like Livi to make him realize he could forgive himself and learn to love her and her children. I was deeply moved by their story and found myself never wanting it to end.....

About the author

Award-winning author Elizabeth Grayson has always loved stories of adventure and romance. Upon retiring from teaching, she began writing full time. Elizabeth lives in the mid-west with her husband and cat, love traveling and is an avid photographer and knitter. www.elizbethgrayson.com