However, she’s given a harsh lesson in the realities of life when her parents and everyone else in their party are murdered. The Brethren have chosen a husband for her whom she’s to be betrothed to when they reach New Mexico, and she’s looking forward to her new life there. I had a few minor quibbles here and there that I’ll address as I go along, but overall, this was a very good story that I enjoyed.Rebecca has lived a sheltered life in her little church community, but it’s been one with which she’s been content thus far. But their burgeoning relationship is tried by the thieves who never found the church money and keep inflicting murder and mayhem on the hero’s men and cattle in an effort to get their hands on it. With no other women for miles around, the job of caring for her falls on his shoulders, so he looks out for her and protects her. She’s found by the hero who is driving cattle to his ranch. Unfortunately, during their journey, the settlers are waylaid by thieves who brutally rape, murder, and pillage their wagon train, and our heroine is the sole survivor. Her church community decides to head west where there’s more open spaces free from the encroachment of secular society, and they take a large amount of money with them from the sale of their lands that’s intended to help them survive in their new home. It’s the story of a young woman who was raised in a strict religious sect. Cherish is one of Catherine Anderson's older, stand-alone, historical romances.
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