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Redeeming Love
- 474 pages · about 8 hours
- First published 1991
- 22 editions
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1 About this book
California’s gold country, 1850. A time when men sold their souls for a bag of gold and women sold their bodies for a place to sleep. Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Sold into prostitution as a child, she survives by keeping her hatred alive. And what she hates most are the men who use her, leaving her empty and dead inside.
Then she meets Michael Hosea. A man who seeks his Father’s heart in everything, Michael Hosea obeys God’s call to marry Angel and to love her unconditionally. Slowly, day by day, he defies Angel’s every bitter expectation until, despite her resistance her frozen heart begins to thaw.
But with her unexpected softening come overwhelming feelings of unworthiness and fear. And so Angel runs. Back to the darkness, away from her husband’s pursuing love, terrified of the truth she can no longer deny: Her final healing must come from the One who loves her even more than Michael Hosea does…the One who will never let her go.
- Romance
- Historical fiction
- Christian, historical
- Romance, historical
- Christian, romance
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Women pioneers
- Christian fiction
2 What to expect
A Christian historical romance set in the California Gold Rush and inspired by the biblical Book of Hosea: a devout farmer marries a woman who was sold into prostitution as a child, and goes on loving her. Its theme is redeeming love, human and divine, and faith is explicit throughout. It is long, emotional and earnest, and it deals with child abuse, prostitution and trauma.
Good for readers who want: Christian romance, a story of redemption, and a sweeping, emotional read.
3 About Francine Rivers
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
4 More by Francine Rivers
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