Celebrate Lit Blog Tour: A Not So Peaceful Journey by Sandra Merville Hart

Book: A Not So Peaceful Journey

Author: Sandra Merville Hart

Genre: Christian Historical Romance

Release date: June 13, 2023

Dreams of adventure send him across the country. She prefers to keep her feet firmly planted in Ohio.

Rennie Hill has no illusions about the hardships in life, which is why it’s so important her beau, John Welch, keeps his secure job with the newspaper. Though he hopes to write fiction, the unsteady pay would mean an end to their plans, wouldn’t it?

John Welch dreams of adventure worthy of storybooks, like Mark Twain, and when two of his short stories are published, he sees it as a sign of future success. But while he’s dreaming big with his head in the clouds, his girl has her feet firmly planted, and he can’t help wondering if she really believes in him.

When Rennie must escort a little girl to her parents’ home in San Francisco, John is forced to alter his plans to travel across the country with them. But the journey proves far more adventurous than either of them expect.

 

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 I am a fan of Historical Fiction and I really enjoy reading books that are part of a series. I have been reading the Second Chances series by Sandra Merville Hart. A Not So Peaceful Journey is Book 3 in this series. I have been anxiously awaiting the release of this book! 

We are taken back to Hamilton, Ohio in 1884. Rennie Hill and John Welch have been a couple for a few years. Rennie has been through some hurdles in life, but she feels secure with John Welch. John loves his job writing for a newspaper, but he dreams of becoming a Published Author and traveling the world before settling down. Rennie doesn't want those plans, but she tries to encourage him. John has the opportunity to travel from Ohio to California when Rennie and her Sister help transport a little girl from Ohio to California. Rennie's sister Veronica is going along and Rennie worries about travel as they don't always get along. John agrees to travel along and the adventure begins for Rennie and John. Will they get the little girl transported safely? Will the Adventures in Travel help or hinder John and Rennie's relationship? 

WOW! I am sad that this is the last book in this series. I truly enjoyed this book, probably my favorite in the series. I LOVE how Rennie and John have overcome so many things in their relationship to get to where they are in this book. John has dreams and is unsure if Rennie really wants to support those dreams. I LOVE how everything works out for Rennie and John to travel from Ohio to California and that their relationship seemed to make great strides as they spend lots of time together. The book has many twists and turns, but the Historical part is so wonderful. This book is about Dreams, LOVE, and Achievements. I HIGHLY recommend this book to anyone who enjoys Christian Historical Romance. FANTASTIC BOOK!

Sandra Merville Hart, award-winning and Amazon bestselling author of inspirational historical romances, loves to discover little-known yet fascinating facts from American history to include in her stories. Her desire is to transport her readers back in time. She is also a blogger, speaker, and conference teacher. Connect with Sandra on her blog, https://sandramervillehart.wordpress.com/.

 

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It was fun to invite readers on this book’s journey!

 

To those who lived in the 1880s, venturing into this newly-settled and largely-unsettled West had become much safer—though not without danger—with the system of railroads already in place. I enjoyed taking readers to Chicago, Omaha, Oakland, Ogden, and Sacramento, as well as frontier towns along the journey such as Cheyenne.

 

Our heroine is a telegraph operator. She temporarily leaves her job to escort a little girl to her ailing mother in San Francisco.

My research about telegraph jobs taught me quite a bit of terminology.

 

For example, a clatter arises when another operator “calls.” The call begins with something like “B m—X n”, which means the B m is the station receiving the call and X n is the caller.

 

B m must signal a reply that she’s ready to receive the call.

 

The Sounder receives sounds of the alphabet in dots and dashes. Some operators sent messages too rapidly to understand. When this occurs, the receiving operating asks for it again with a Break (she opens her “key” to break the circuit) and interrupts with “Please repeat.”

 

“G.A. the—” means “Go ahead” and “the” was the last word she understood.

 

Operators end every message with his/her own private “call” as well as the office’s call and “O.K.” at the end of each message.

Wired Love, which was written by telegraph operator Ella Cheever Thayer in 1879, provided many insights about the job’s daily tasks.

 

One of them was the lack of privacy on the lines. She can hear the messages sent to other wires but only offices on the same wire. In Wired Love, operators heard messages sent to and from twenty offices.

 

By the way, the public grew so fascinated with the role of women in telegraphy that it became the topic of romance novels and short stories, creating a new genre called “telegraphic romance” in the latter 1800s. That’s a little-known fun fact for you!

 

I enjoyed writing this series. I invite you to read the whole “Second Chances” series beginning with A Not So Convenient Marriage, Book 1, A Not So Persistent Suitor, Book 2, and A Not So Peaceful Journey, Book 3.

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To celebrate her tour, Sandra is giving away the grand prize of a $50 Amazon gift card!!

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Celebrate Lit Blog Tour: A Not So Peaceful Journey by Sandra Merville Hart

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