*I received this from Netgalley for my review*
I was so excited that Sarah decided to write Gideon's story! He was one of my favorites from The Sheriffs of Savage Wells!
The book had me laughing right away from the first chapter. Miriam arrives to a new town, thinking she came to just be a nurse, but she steps right into her own wedding. A mix up with a "mail order bride" institution send Miriam running. She's convinced to remain as a nurse to the very man she rejected marrying.
There are a lot of awful things that this book deals with. Paisley's dad is slowly slipping into what we now know of as Dementia, the kids in the town contract scarlet fever, and we eventually find out that Miriam-though actually a nurse- had been institutionalized for 2 years for having seizures and so thought as mad. She's been running from the institution's doctor after escaping. He eventually catches up to her. All things get resolved in a good way at the end.
I love Sarah's ability to weave heavy topics into her sweet romances.