This is an excellent fictional story about real life people. It's the love story between a preacher, Rowland Hill and the women he was in love with Mary Tudway. This story brings to life the reality of being unequally yoked. Rowland loves Mary, but puts off asking for hand in marriage, because one; he wasn't ordained, and two; he questioned having a wife that didn't theologically agree with him. Mary wants the social life of the aristocracy, but her heart is empty living that life. The author brings Mary and Rowland's life a love story of not only a physical and emotional love, but a spiritual love. The relationship between Rowland and Mary may be fictional, but the events that transpired during that time were real. It makes this story fascinating and even made be do a little research into the life of Rowland Hill and Bishop Twysden.
Thank you so much for the charming review! I am delighted that you really *got* the heart of my story. This one was so much fun to write because I was able to correspond with the descendants of the Tudway family.
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