291 pages July 25,2023 publish date Bethany House publisher
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About The Book
One candid photograph will change the lives of four people forever.
While taking photographs at an exposition in Seattle in 1909, Camera Girl Eleanor Bennett snaps an image of a woman in widow’s clothes with deep sorrow etched in her expression and a young infant in her arms.
Eleanor longs to study botany at the University of Washington and soon becomes fast friends with botanist Bill Reed, but she can’t stop thinking about the widow in the photograph. She is stunned to learn Bill recognizes the woman as the sister-in-law he believed lost in a shipwreck.
As Eleanor and Bill hunt for Amelia Reed to reunite her with her grief-stricken husband, they must stand together to face the danger that follows and learn to trust that God will direct their paths.
My Thoughts
Finding Us, is the second book in the Pictures of the Heart series by Tracie Peterson. Now Tracie has some calling her the “Queen of Historical fiction.” I can rightly see how she would have earned this nickname. I’ve been reading her books right from the start when she was published with Barbour books and knew she would go far in the publishing world.
Her books take ahold of you, and you get lost in the fictional world she is portraying. The first book in this series focused more on cameras and taking pictures and selling them at an exposition in Seattle in the early 1900’s. Now this one does the same thing as it continues the series but not as much as the first.
“Women and children first” they said effectively removing Amelia Reed, heavily pregnant from her husband as she’s helped into a lifeboat when the ship, she’s on with her husband starts to sink. When the lifeboat is found capsized, she must have drowned.
A chance meeting at the exposition has want to be botanist Camera Girl Eleanor Bennett meeting botanist Bill Reed when she snaps his photo.
As they get to know each other their mutual fascination with botany brings them together. As Eleanor snaps pictures of others at the expo she sees a sight that she won’t soon forget. A woman in widow’s weeds, with a haunted look on her face with a newborn baby. The woman agrees to have her picture taken so she can have a picture of her young baby.
Remarking to Bill about this memorable woman she shows the picture to Bill who is astounded saying this is his sister-in-law. This starts the process of trying to relocate the woman despite many obstacles and through dangerous situations.
The book is a tale of love, loss and restored faith.
I found the book to be very enjoyable and realistic and greatly look forward to more books by this author.
Pub Date: 25 Jul 2023
I was given a complimentary copy of this book.
All opinions expressed are my own.
The Author
Tracie Peterson is the bestselling, award-winning author of more than one hundred books. Tracie also teaches writing workshops at a variety of conferences on subjects such as inspirational romance and historical research. She and her family live in Montana.
Visit Tracie’s web site at: http://www.traciepeterson.com
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