Reverence in the Wilderness by Andrea Byrd Review

 

Reverence in the Wilderness by Andrea Byrd is the third book in her Frontier Hearts series.

When her father dies during a tornado, Keturah is left alone on their farmstead in the wilderness of Kentucky. She decides she needs to find a husband right away to help her and keep her safe, so she heads out to Skagg’s station where she finds Daniel who has been left alone there after being abandoned by the people he’d been traveling west with. As someone who grew up in a city, will he have what it takes to help her on her farm, or will marrying him be a big mistake?

Keturah wonders this for quite a while after their marriage of convenience. And Daniel worries he will never be what Keturah needs, as he never amounted to anything prior to this in his life. Everything he does seems to be wrong. But he is determined to try to gain his lovely new wife’s respect.

I was drawn right into this story and loved watching Keturah and Daniel’s relationship evolve as they struggled through hardships while learning to trust God and each other. I also enjoyed getting to see Margaret and Iain from the previous book, Redemption in the Wilderness, where we first met Keturah and her father. I really enjoyed this book, I just wish the story had been longer.

I received an ARC of this book as a member of the launch team and was not required to write a favorable review. These are my own honest thoughts.