Sofi’s Bridge
Christine Lindsay
Pelican Ventures
c. 2015
ISBN 978-1611165203
Historical Romance
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About the Book
Seattle debutant Sofi Andersson will
do everything in her power to protect her sister who is suffering from shock
over their father's death. Charles, the family busy-body, threatens to lock
Trina in a sanatorium—a whitewashed term for an insane asylum—so Sofi will
rescue her little sister, even if it means running away to the Cascade
Mountains with only the new gardener Neil Macpherson to protect them. But in a
cabin high in the Cascades, Sofi begins to recognize that the handsome
immigrant from Ireland harbors secrets of his own. Can she trust this man whose
gentle manner brings such peace to her traumatized sister and such tumult to
her own emotions? And can Neil, the gardener continue to hide from Sofi that he
is really Dr. Neil Galloway, a man wanted for murder by the British police?
Only an act of faith and love will bridge the distance that separates lies from
truth and safety.
My Review
First and second generation
Americans with secrets help each other move beyond their stereotypes to protect
the ones they love. One succeeds and the other watches another member of the
family lose the battle.
Sofi Andersson, born of Swedish
immigrant parents, has never suffered until the day her beloved papa didn’t
come home, and her younger sister became so traumatized she can no longer
function. Her mother Roselle is held up only with destructive advice from her
physician and late husband’s business partner, who Sofi has long mistrusted.
When threatened with institutionalization, Sofi kidnaps her sister with the
reluctant help of their newly hired Irish gardener, Neil Galloway, who is not
what he appears.
Sofi knows what she’s doing, running
back to her late grandfather’s homestead and the friends and family who knew
and loved him. Her father had certainly been a modern turn-of-the
twentieth-century man who instilled independence in his daughters, encouraging
them in daring to cross gender roles in architecture, math, and engineering
skills. But he failed to surround them with the support they needed, and Sofi
did right to leave Seattle high society and its rules to hunker down amongst
her grandfather’s unconventional partners and family. It doesn’t hurt that this
hiding place is also near her bridge-building late father’s last project. Sofi,
at twenty-one, has absorbed all the skills necessary to build a railroad bridge,
and when she realizes her father’s unscrupulous partner has changed her specs,
she’ll move heaven and earth to save his reputation.
Meanwhile, Sofi is distracted by her
new partner in crime, the Irish gardener Neil, who out of necessity confesses
his true vocation and eventually the reason for his subterfuge. Their
relationship grows over the summer, but as events come to a head, realize
reputation is always trumped by faith, hope, and love.
About the Author
Irish born Christine Lindsay is the
author of multi-award-winning Christian fiction and non-fiction. Readers
describe her writing as gritty yet tender, realistic yet larger than life, with
historical detail that collides into the heart of psychological and
relationship drama.This author’s non-fiction memoir Finding Sarah Finding Me is the true-life story that started this award-winning career in Christian fiction and non-fiction. This book is a must for anyone whose life has been touched by adoption. Christine is currently writing a new fictional series set on the majestic coast of Ireland and loaded with her use of setting as a character that will sweep the reader away. Subscribe to her newsletter on her website www.christinelindsay.org.
