His passion for cooking led him to his current project: a documentary and cookbook about authentic Southern food. Jack Darwent wasn’t interested in the definition of success dictated by Southern high society. To her surprise, a white man she’s never met has befriended her grandmother. So why doesn’t she feel more excited about it? When she has to travel South for a case, she pays a long-overdue visit back home to Milford, Georgia.

To reflect Gods promise, these combatants must put aside their differences and come together-somehow.Southern traditions, history, and hope come together in author Piper Huguley’s heartfelt romance from Hallmark Publishing.Īlthea Dailey has succeeded beyond her wildest dreams: she’s about to make partner at her prestigious law firm in New York. In the aftermath of the flood that was the Civil War, God set his bow upon the earth to show love and understanding for humankind.

To keep THE PREACHERS PROMISE, Amanda and Virgil must put aside their enmity, unite for the sake of a newly-created community in a troubling age, and do things they never imagined. If only he didnt have secrets that the new schoolteacher seems determined to uncover. He cannot forget the promise he made to his daughters mother as she diedthat their child would learn to read and write. He must organize his fellow formerly enslaved citizens into a new town and raise his young daughter alone.

On top of everything else, the schoolteacher lady has a will hard enough to match the iron he forges. Virgil Smithson, Milfords mayor, blacksmith and sometimes preacher man with a gift for fiery oratory, doesnt want anything to do with a snobby schoolteacher from up North.

However, when she arrives, the mayor tells her to leave. She determines to start her teaching work with the formerly enslaved. Sorting through her fathers papers, she discovers he had carried on a mysterious correspondence with a plantation in Milford, Georgia. Instead, to fulfill a promise she made to her father, she resolves to start a school to educate and uplift their race. Her fathers unscrupulous business partner offers her an indecent proposal to earn a living. 1866 Oberlin, Ohio/ Milford, Georgia Devastated by her fathers death days after her triumphant graduation from Oberlin College, Amanda Stewart is all alone in the world.

The Preacher's Promise by Piper Huguley