Not quite a western, the story takes place in Ohio in 1891. Romancing Olive by Holly Bush is a wonderful early American story. Great Midwestern Tale of Early American Struggles Will Olive and Jacob find the strength to fight their battles alone or together? Will love conquer the bitterness of loss and broken dreams? Real danger threatens Olive and Mary and John, while Jacob and his own brood battle the day-to-day struggles for survival. Her niece and nephew, Mary and John, have been living with a neighboring farmer, widower Jacob Butler, the father of three young children of his own and a man still in pain from the recent loss of his wife. She arrives to find the circumstances of her brother's life deplorable and her long held beliefs of family and tradition, shaken.Īccustomed to the sophistication of Philadelphia, Olive arrives in Spencer, Ohio, a rough and tumble world she is not familiar with, facing two traumatized children. Spinster librarian Olive Wilkins is shocked to learn of her brother's violent death at a saloon gaming table and her sister-in-law's subsequent murder, traveling far from her staid life to rescue her niece and nephew, now orphans.
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