This is book four in the Leah’s Garden series and although I’ve only read book three previously I have enjoyed getting to know these sisters. Take a step back in time to Salton, Nebraska in 1868 and experience the hardships these women face and how they never gave up on fulfilling their mother’s dream of starting a seed catalog. The cover is so beautiful and tugs you to open up the book and become immersed. Lark strives to do and be everything to everyone and forgets to seek a life for herself until her heartstrings start to pull her toward Isaac but can he be trusted to not disappear. I loved these characters and their stubbornness. A wonderful story of family devotion, faith that binds them together, fulfilling desires of the heart, difficulties that can be hard to bear, and finding love. I wanted more please. I throughly enjoyed getting to know this family as it feels like old friends.
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A Season of Harvest by Lauraine Snelling is Historical Fiction. This fourth book in the Leah’s Garden series continues the stories of Larkspur, Lilac, Forsythia, and Delphinium, along with their family and friends. Focusing primarily on Larkspur and Lilac, this book provides interesting insight into someone who has reconciled herself to being single. Larkspur accepts the fact she may never marry. So, she focuses on the family farm and building the family’s mail-order seed business.

Meanwhile, Lilac remains open to love even though she walked away from a chance at marriage in the last book. But, in this book, she reconnects with a family friend, and the possibility of marriage looms before her. With men who have to overcome their pasts, this story kept me reading.

While you could read this book alone, I recommend reading the books in order to get to know the characters and their struggles and see how the girls develop and grow into the women God intended them to be. This series is a beautifully written testimony to the power of God’s love and provisions for our lives.

So, if you enjoy historical fiction, check out A Season of Harvest by Lauraine Snelling for yourself.

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I want to live in this town. I love these people and swear I prayed all through it right along with the characters. Gosh I love spending time with them all. Frustrating, joyful, tearful, breathless at times. You have to love them and how it all plays out. Extra excellent read!

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I have always enjoyed this authors writing because she has this knack of getting readers hooked right away on her stories. They flow easily and I felt like I was planted in the time period. I loved being part of the celebration when the mercantile had their grand reopening. It’s a new beginning for the town. Now people can start to live their lives without worrying so much about loss.

I have read the first three in this series so it helped me fall right into the story without being lost. I would recommend if you haven’t read the first ones it may help. The story catches us up on what has been happening with the sisters. It was fun to see how each one faces struggles and depend on their faith to help them.

It is a very heartwarming story that captures the feelings of family, trust and love. I enjoyed how the characters struggle with issues while relying on faith to help them. It was nice to see how the sisters were there for each other and never turned their back during hard times.

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First sentence: "Make sure you send me a telegram when you get to Linksburg."

What should you know about A Season of Harvest? 1) It's historical ROMANCE set in Nebraska in 1868. 2) It's the FOURTH in a series. 3) Each book focuses on a family of sisters; each novel features at least one romance. 4) There are brothers but they are less important because their romances aren't featured. (Okay, that might be an exaggeration). 5) By the fourth book there are dozens of characters to keep track of. No characters are dropped. 6) If you do not read the novels close together, you may end up super-confused OR super-frustrated OR both.

I have read the other novels in the series. At least I am mostly sure I have read the first two books. (I think I've read the third.) It wasn't recent enough for me to remember ANY details about the story. Not the sisters' names. Not the husbands' names. Not the kids' names. No major plot twists. No minor plot twists.

Is this one written so that it could stand alone? No. Not really. To start with the fourth book would be like tuning into a movie when you've only got thirty minutes left. You might pick up enough to know if you want to watch the movie in its entirety. You might like it enough to want to know the title so that you could seek it out to watch it. But you'll have more questions than answers. When it comes to this novel, I felt the characterization was relying so much on reader's previous knowledge in other books that it was a little lacking.

I did like that the novel shows how the Civil War still has WOUNDS--literal and figurative--that are open. Four or five years might have passed but for those who fought, for those who lost brothers or husbands or fathers or sons, it's still FRESH and very much still a trauma to work through.

Larkspur and Lilac are the two single sisters when the novel opens. The other three novels in the series has focused on the other sisters and their romances. ( )