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Widowed Jasmine Houston, is recovering from the loss of her husband and is excelling in the horse business she has recently started, when news arrives that her mother and former mammy are ill
-- and not expected to live. Jasmine’s friend and brother-in-law, Nolan, makes arrangements for her to travel from Lowell, MA, to Mississippi. Jasmine is scared to go, afraid she’ll never again see her mother alive.
Jasmine’s mother and Mammy both die within days after Jasmine’s arrival, but before Mammy dies, she tells Jasmine about her son, who is still in slavery somewhere. She wants Jasmine to find him and buy his freedom. Jasmine promises, and with remarkable ease is able to locate Mammy’s son, his wife and their child, and purchases their freedom. But their trouble isn’t over yet.
Soon after arriving back in Lowell, someone kidnaps the recently freed black woman and Jasmine’s son. Will they be found alive? Who would do such a horrible thing, and why?
A LOVE WOVEN TRUE is the second book in the Lights of Lowell series and readers might want to read the first book in the series, A Tapestry of Hope beforehand in order to understand some of the events mentioned. I think A LOVE WOVEN TRUE is the best book in the series thus far, it held my interest from the beginning and kept it all the way through the book.
My only complaint about this book is that I think it was too easy for Jasmine to find and locate Mammy’s son and buy his freedom. Otherwise, the story flowed easily and was believable. Historically, it seemed to be very accurate with other accounts of the period I’ve read.
Pick up a copy of A LOVE WOVEN TRUE today for a read you won’t soon forget.
Reviewed by Laura V. Hilton
for The Road to Romance
January 31, 2005
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