Finding Faith In Love by Evelyn Boyett

Rating:  ⭐⭐⭐⭐
This story starts where Ella is at her darkest. Jasper, her childhood sweetheart seems to have abandoned her. The cowboy next door is trying to marry her and she senses something not right about him. Two to three times a week, she has to drag her father home from the saloon, try to care for her brother and sister and take care of the house and ranch. This story describes the darkest of an alcoholic's family and the terrible burden it puts on his loved ones. It's sad that such tragedies had to fall on Ella before someone reached out to help her or the rancher next door making moves on Ella for Jasper to do something before he lost her. The plot has small hole in it with the rancher's behavior, but works itself out with the town people in the end. I had to stop reading this book at several places, because it took me to some dark places I didn't want to go. Nevertheless, the story gets intense in the last half the story and maintains this pace until the end.