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The Preacher's Bride
Christian romance
The Preacher's Bride
384 pages · First published 2010
Elizabeth Whitbread is a Puritan woman struggling to keep her household together when widowed preacher John Costin needs help caring for his children. A practical marriage offers security and mutual assistance, but life in seventeenth-century England brings poverty, religious tension, family strain, and danger from authorities hostile to dissenters. Affection develops through service and shared faith rather than conventional courtship. Inspired by the life of John Bunyan and his second wife Elizabeth, Jody Hedlund’s debut historical romance imagines the woman who stood beside the future author of The Pilgrim’s Progress during some of his most difficult years.
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Death, grief, and loss · Violence, weapons, and peril · Mild romantic content, including kissing
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