Peach Blossom Rancher

By Ada Brownell

Description:

What do peaches, an asylum, and dead bodies have to do with inspirational romance?
According to Author Ada Brownell, they’re as important to her seventh book, Peach Blossom Rancher, as baking powder to a cake.
“Baking powder might not taste so great by itself, but it adds the chemical balance necessary to make baked goods great,” she explained.
To write this historical romance the author drew from her experiences growing up in Fruita, Colo., near peach country, and from her years as a journalist covering the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo.
Although the fictional asylum is in Boston, the author says you wouldn’t believe the types of diagnoses that could get you committed in the early 1900s. She took the information from historical lists compiled by the Colorado Board of Lunacy Commissioners on the supposed cause of insanity of those held in 1899 to 1910, when asylums were young. Many of those conditions are revealed in the novel.
The leading man, rancher John Lincoln Parks, yearns for a wife to help rebuild the ranch and eyes Valerie MacDougal, a young widow who homesteaded, but also is an attorney. One of those she hopes help be released is a doctor who had one seizure in a public arena.
Will the doctor ever get out of the asylum? Will John marry Valerie or Edwina Jorgenson, the feisty rancher-neighbor he constantly fusses with? This neighbor has a Peeping Tom whose bootprints are like the person’s who dumped a body in John’s barn. Will John even marry, or be hanged for the murder?

Book Takeaway:

Although life might bring disappointment, God works in our lives in amazing ways.

Why the author wrote this book:

Peach Blossom Rancher is the sequel to The Lady Fugitive, the first in the Peaches and Dreams series.
there were still stories to tell about the characters.