Remembered

I have read this series and am anxious for new books this author has written. I was introduced to her by my hairdresser who is being mentored in her budding writing career by Tamera. Excellent reading allowing me to see some of the experiences my ancestors may have lived through during the time periods that are her subjects.

Veronique Girard is not a wealthy woman, but has enjoyed the trappings of wealth her entire life. But then her beloved mother dies, and Veronique almost immediately loses the security of her prestigious position. From beyond the grave, her maman pulls the strings that ensure Veronique will grant her dying wish: Leave Paris and go to America's rugged Colorado Territory in search of the father who abandoned both of them twenty-five years ago. Eased by a soft cushion of unmerited financial backing, Veronique packs her fashionable French wardrobe and heads west. Jack Brennan is retiring from a fifteen-year career as a trail guide. Having suffered a tragic loss years earlier, and having finally found peace, he looks forward to settling down in or near Willow Springs, a growing town in the Colorado Territory. Jack's plans are to start up a new business hauling freight into the scattered mining towns surrounding his chosen place of residence. What he hasn't counted on is being forced by unforeseen circumstances to escort a beautiful, innocent, feisty and demanding Frenchwoman into the dangerous mining communities, as well. Tamera Alexander's third book in the Fountain Creek series paints a vivid picture of early American life. Her characters literally burst onto the pages - living, breathing and sizzling with energy. Ms. Alexander pens a riveting tale of heartbreak and healing, love and loss, honor and virtue. Profound spiritual lessons are expertly woven into the tale - without sermonizing or distracting from the storyline. Readers are relentless drawn in, charmed by the hero, amused and warmed by the heroine, and amazed by the number of completely real and believable supporting characters. Remembered is a keeper that will most definitely be ... remembered!

Rekindled, the first book in the Fountain Creek Chronicles series, was a wonderful, thoroughly engaging and thought provoking story of love that warmed my heart and taught me. Revealed, nearly matching the quality of the first book, was the story of two of the supporting characters in the first book. Remembered just drew me in from the first page in a way that I don't often experience. I couldn't wait to get snatches of time to read just a little bit more! All the way to the last paragraph, the writing was superb and the story compelling and tender. Love, as God intended it, makes the world's substitute pale in comparison. Thank you, Tamera, for your irresistible picturing of genuine love!

This book is #3 in the Fountain Creek Chronicles and it does not disappoint in the least.

This was a delightful book. The heroine, Veronique, was charming. She was beautiful but anaware of this. She was very concerned about rules and etiquette, and social standing. She goes to Colorado to fulfill her mothers wish that she find her father who left them many years earlier and never sent for them. Her relationship with Jack was fun to read. The two clash in the beginning. The author's ability to string words together to paint pictures was amazing to me. In just 2 - 3 sentences you could "see" what she was describing. You could feel the emotion of the people. This book was a delight to read.

In 1870 France, Veronique Girard leaves the flower on the coffin containing her beloved mother Ariane while reflecting that she would prefer to ignore her deathbed promise to mamam. However, Veronique swore she would go to the Colorado Territory to find her father Pierre, who left them over a quarter of a century ago with a vow he would send for them; he never did. Veronique adapts to the wildness of Colorado while hiring Jack Brennan to escort her from one Rocky Mountain mining town to another in her quest to find her papa. Jack wanted to refuse driving Veronique as the towns are dangerous, but the widowed supply hauler cannot leave her to her own devices. As they fall in love, he fears that emotion having grieved the deaths of his wife and child while she remains obsessed with finding Pierre and she has a childhood ami Christophe back in Paris. The third Fountains Creek Chronicles (see REVEALED and REKINDLED) is a wonderful western romance starring two individuals from different lifestyles falling in love; feelings that neither desire the other. The story line brings out the rugged Reconstruction Era Colorado Territory especially when contrasted with Veronique's Paris upbringing. Veronique is a wonderful protagonist although she adjusts perhaps too easily to the Wild West while Jack struggles with survivor guilt compounded by having a second chance at love if he goes for it. Readers will remember Tamara Alexander's' fine tale of loss and redemption. Harriet Klausner