A Fragile Design

As with #1 in this series, it is a lovely reading experience. Strong, capable females, believable characters and situations, and always illustrating the beauty and value of a changed heart.

This is not my favorite series by Tracie and Im not sure why. This was a pretty good book with a nice ending.

Bella is a young woman with ideas that don't always fit the times. She has her own mind and likes to use it and when her head isn't turned by the attractive Taylor, he sets out to make her fall for him, but somewhere along the way he falls for her. When Bella in kidnapped, he pleads for God to keep her safe.The second book in the Bells of Lowell series is another wonderful one. The teaming of Peterson and Miller is an excellent one and I hope we get many more books from them!

Experience drama, romance and intrigue in one of America's early industrial settlements. In this second volume of the Bells of Lowell series, the story picks up with two Shaker girls who make a break from the life they've known for a new beginning working in the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts. Accustomed to a life of equality between men and women, Bella and Daughtie are shocked to discover life in the outside world not quite so lenient towards women. Eager to set things right, Bella strives to forge a place for women in a society dominated by men, while trying to fight off the advances of heartbreaker Taylor Manning and gain a foothold in her new life of independence. In the midst of all this, girls are going missing from the Irish settlement, and rumours of an uprising cause tempers to flare and rationality to cease. It'll take more than a few level heads to cool things down, especially when girls from the mills start to disappear as well... A FRAGILE DESIGN is a riveting sequel to the story started in DAUGHTER OF THE LOOM. ~~Ellie Schroder, owner of The Christian Fiction Site