Bound by Grace is a short historical category romance from Heartsong Presents. In the biz, it's what is called a sweet romance. And Bound by Grace is even sweeter than most.
Our heroine, Charlotte Pringle, is nearly a spinster at age 20, but that's mostly because she is more interested in books than boys, in managing her bookshop than in marrying. Though she isn't against the latter, especially after she meets attractive Richard Baxton.
Richard, our hero, finds himself in charge of all aspects of the family business, his mother, and his niece Grace, after his brother's and sister-in-law's untimely death in a carriage accident. He meets Charlotte at her bookstore while shopping for Grace.
This is a story of a courtship of friendship, of like interests in books and compassion for Grace as she learns to live and walk again after the carriage accident. It is a story of bad timing and some unexplained lack of communication, and mostly the honest insecurities that encroach a deepening love relationship. It's a story of honoring duties, including the requests of parents, and listening to the desires of the heart, and still waiting on the Lord.
Bound by Grace is a quick read, with some interesting details of society life in Brandywine, Delaware in 1881, a different location from the usual western America of romance novels set in this time period.
