When that doesn't work, she hides herself under Rose's bride veil and presents herself in a completely darkened room as Rose to a sleeping, drunk Jamie who thinks his wife has finally arrived to consummate their marriage. After Jamie becomes engaged to Rose, Leeana professes her love to Jaime, asking him to marry her instead, and is soundly told by Jaime that he loves only Rose. Jamie rebuffs her attempts and tells her plainly he's not interested, yet she keeps trying to win his affections. First, when her father promises her hand in marriage to a man she is not physically attracted to, she doesn't try to love him and even refuses the marriage once Jaime comes to live with them - even though it is obvious from the first that Jamie is smitten with her younger sister Rose (Rachel). Let me tell me how in the story Leeana was the MOST SELFISH OF ALL. Over and over, the author keeps writing that Leeana should have been the choice of Jamie (Jacob) because she was the epitome of sacrificial love. Oh, and the middle English spellings of words was really annoying.
The stories of the patriarchs should not be altered. The author was tediously paralleling Jacob's life in the beginning then heads into alternate Biblical history which I find disconcerting. I still do not understand why the author chose to place the story in eighteenth century Scotland. Then I got excited because the love story of Jacob and Rachel is one of the most beautiful in the Bible. When I picked up this trilogy I didn't know it was the story of the Biblical Jacob, but the author made it so obvious I picked up on this fact within a few paragraphs. How I hate Leeana, let me count the ways. I was hooked from the first page." - Tracie Peterson, author of Treasures of the North I couldn’t put it down." - Francine Rivers, author of Redeeming Love "A moving account of love, deception, redemption, and hope. But what if that was the life the Almighty had chosen for her? If it pleased him, could she bear it? "Wise, heart wrenching, and ultimately triumphant.
A life without love, without a husband, without children.
Far greater fears gnawed on Leana’s soul. "As dark as a Yule midnight," Neda would say. Clouds had moved in and blotted out the moon, for the window was dark, and her whole room, except for the tiny flame, remained pitch black. Leana slipped beneath the woolen covers, leaving one taper burning high on the dresser where it would not disturb her slumber. In the autumn of 1788, amid the moors and glens of the Scottish Lowlands, two brothers fight to claim one father’s blessing, two sisters long to claim one man’s heart.
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