This is a book inspired by the book of Hosea in the bible and it is set in the 1850's in California
The whole concept of the book is to try to depict the redeeming love of God to sinners and how he expects us to be towards each other as he is towards us. It really shows through Micheal Hosea's dedication to what God wanted of him and his expression of love towards someone who many would reject and cast out, a person who ended up being his wife.
The story starts with a beautiful young girl, Sarah, who meets her father for the first time at the age of seven and finds out that she is the result of an adulterous affair between her already married father Alex Stafford and her mother and realizes that her father never wanted her, making her dislike him, wishing that she would never have to see him again.
Later that year, her father decided that he wanted to see her mother, Mae. Mae, being very much in love with Stafford made arrangements for her maid to take Sarah away while Stafford would be around.Cleo, the maid, took Sarah with her into a popular brothel where Cleo was well-known and had a male companion. After getting drunk she agreed to sleep with him. After this, the man leaves Cleo heartbroken again, Cleo in a half-drunk stupor told Sarah "God's truth" and forced a frightened Sarah to listen to her say that no man ever cares for a woman and all they want is sex.
Eventually, Stafford leaves them completely, and without his support, Mae became panicked and they eventually had to relocate to a shack on the docks where Mae became a prostitute. After several years, Mae came down with a severe illness and on her dying bed, she entrusted the life of her child to a drunk of a man, Rab.
Rab, not knowing what to do with a small child went searching for a way out and soon found a man whose master was looking to adopt a little girl and he quickly gathered Sarah up and took her to the mansion. Upon getting there, Rab was strangled right in front of Sarah, then the master of the house, Duke who turns out to be a pedophile gives her a new name, Angel. He tells her there is much to teach her then he gives her his very first "lesson" that night.
After several years, Angel escapes Duke, only to fall into prostitution at the brothel of a woman named Duchess.
It is at this place that Micheal Hosea, a farmer gets his first glance of the wife God has chosen for him, while trying to sell his produce at the shop close to the brothel...
To get the rest of the story, how Hosea had to fight to win the hard heart of his wife, and how she eventually learns to love him back, go read the book!!!!!
This story is packed with so much emotion, it'll bring many to tears, and others close.
This book is a must read!!!!
T.I.L
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