The Song of Sourwood Mountain

Ann H. Gabhart

May 2024 · Baker Books

About this eBook

While the century began with such promise, it is 1910 when Mira Dean's hopes of being a wife and mother are dashed to pieces. Her fiancé dead from tuberculosis, Mira resigns herself to being a spinster schoolteacher--until Gordon Covington shows up.

No longer the boy she knew from school, Gordon is now a preacher who is full of surprises. First, he asks Mira to come to Sourwood in eastern Kentucky to teach at his mission school. Second, he asks her to marry him. Just like that. And all at once the doors that had seemed firmly shut begin to open, just a crack.

With much trepidation, Mira steps out in faith into a life she never imagined, in a place filled with its own special challenges, to serve a people who will end up becoming the family she always dreamed of.

From the pen of bestselling author Ann H. Gabhart comes a heartwarming story of the unexpected blessings that can come when we dare to follow the Lord's leading.

Ratings and reviews

I thoroughly enjoyed this book! I loved Mira. At first, she has no intention of accepting Gordon’s proposal, but with a little prodding from the spunky Miss Ophelia & after losing her job & home in one fell swoop, she’s willing to take it to give it some thought. I admired her bravery & willingness to follow the Lord’s promptings. Gordon was such an enjoyable character too with his golden retriever personality. I loved their marriage of convenience story, the mystery & Ada June! Highly recommend

Loved reading the awesome and inspirational story. When Preacher Gordon asks Mira to come to teach in Sourwood and become his wife, Mira is shocked and declines his offer, but when God closes doors, she loses her teaching job and a place to live, Mira realizes God wants her to say yes to Gordon's proposal. Read the highly recommended, wonderfully written, and a must read romance story of two people finding love in the rural town of Sourwood.

The Song of Sourwood Mountain is a story that immediately had me loving the kaleidoscope of characters that paraded across the pages and settled right into my heart. Reminiscent of Catherine Marshall’s Christy, this story really brought the mountain culture of early-twentieth-century rural Kentucky to life for me. I couldn’t get enough of it! I couldn’t stop reading, as enamored with this book as I was, and am only sad that it couldn’t be even longer so that I could enjoy it some more!

About the author

Ann H. Gabhart is the bestselling author of many novels, including In the Shadow of the River, When the Meadow Blooms, Along a Storied Trail, An Appalachian Summer, River to Redemption, These Healing Hills, and Angel Sister. She and her husband live on a farm a mile from where she was born in rural Kentucky. Ann enjoys discovering the everyday wonders of nature while hiking in her farm's fields and woods with her grandchildren and her dogs, Frankie and Marley. Learn more at AnnHGabhart.com.