The "Promise" Saga
Heartwarming stories of life in the Oklahoma panhandle beginning fifteen years before "The Dust Bowl." The characters face adversity, illness, drought, and dust...lots and lots of dust. Where "The Promise" was actually written first, its tremendous popularity prompted demands for a sequel, but the author chose to tell the "beginning of the story" first in "Prelude To A Promise." The sequel, "Matt's Story" is now available also, and takes place post WWII, when he returns home from the war with a surprise his parents never dreamed of.
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BOOK ONE
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Rebecca Sutherland fell in love with her best friend, Jacob Walker in “The Promise”. But before Jacob, there was Henry Olsen, a kind, gentle man who was twenty years her senior. She was only fourteen when she met Henry and much too young to even consider him as a mate. Nearly three years later, Rebecca’s father dies of heart disease, and their good friend Henry is the logical one to help Owen’s wife and daughter run the farm. Of course, it would be indecent if he were to simply move in without marrying Rebecca first. What starts out as a marriage of convenience quickly turns into an all-consuming love—until Henry’s mysterious illness threatens to tear them apart.
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BOOK TWO
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“If you ever need anything, Rebecca, you just let me know and I'll be there." Those were the words 16-year-old Jacob Walker told his best friend before her family moved to Oklahoma. Never did he expect that he would have to live up to that promise 14 years later. It was now 1931, and Rebecca was a widow, left to care for her four children alone. She was also the lone caretaker of a failing 500-acre farm. That was the least of her problems. Oklahoma was about to enter the "The Dust Bowl."
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BOOK THREE
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Matt Walker was fifteen when he almost died of dust pneumonia in “The Promise.” Now, ten years later, he is a twenty-five-year-old WWII flying ace with 34 kills, four of them at Pearl Harbor. His high school sweetheart, Julie Sullivan, promised to wait for him when he went off to war, but a single careless night in Papua New Guinea left Matt with a wife and child on the way, breaking Julie’s heart.When Matt returns home after the war, he makes his living in the skies once again, this time as a crop duster. His Piper J-4 Cub Coupe is his pride and joy, second only to his infant son, Noah. His Australian wife, Elisa, should also have been his most prized treasure, but when her deceit and lies expose her for the gold digger she is, Matt is led to doubt that Noah is truly his child. A divorce and fierce custody battle ensue, which will culminate in a trip halfway around the world to save his son.
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