Summer of the Midnight Sun by Tracie Peterson

But she finds life at Oakbridge, the family plantation, nearly unbearable. Carolina Adams clung to the distant dream of America’s westward expansion with the railroad as a promise for a bright future. But when Carolina’s and James’ mutual interests lead to unexpected feelings for each other, where will their dreams take them?įacing personal tragedy and the loss of her own true love, Carolina struggles to find A Hope Beyond. Overwhelmed by her father’s surprise of a tutor, Carolina applies herself to her studies, while Virginia uses all of her southern charms to elicit a marriage proposal from James. He will serve as Carolina’s teacher, but more important to his family, he will court Virginia, Carolina’s beautiful older sister. While recovering from an injury in a train derailment, James takes on a tutoring job at the Adams’ plantation. Living in a society that decidedly looks down on such aspirations in a woman, Carolina longs to study more masculine subjects such as science and advanced mathematics.įresh out of college, James must decide whether to join his father in the banking industry or pursue his own fascination with the railroad business. Only Her Father Understood her Love of the Unknown and the Promise of Distant DreamsĬaught up in the excitement of America’s westward expansion in 1835, fifteen year old Carolina Adams falls in love with the railroad.

Will Catherine be forced to sacrifice her dreams of love? Or does he, as she suspects, recognize her as the young lady he met while touring England? She cannot deny the attraction, but admitting her true identity may jeopardize her father’s only hope for freedom. Is Carter’s avid interest in her genuine… When the dashing Carter Danby accompanies his mother and sister for a design consultation, Catherine suddenly encounters her past face to face. Soon her dress designs are sought throughout Philadelphia. Forced to disguise her past and create a completely new life, Catherine takes on a servant’s last name and carves out a tenuous future for herself as a seamstress. Now that their paths have crossed again, can Catherine break free from the past to embrace the chance for love? A life of privilege becomes only a distant memory when Catherine Newbury’s father is falsely imprisoned and she is whisked away from her home in England to America. His face had a rather rugged look, perhaps more so than she’d noticed five years ago. Hang his imagination this woman was far more intriguing in the flesh…Ĭatherine found she couldn’t look away, he was so very handsome. Carter forgot what he was saying and simply stared at the vision before him. The door opened suddenly, and there she was.

Summer of the Midnight Sun by Tracie Peterson