Bella Jones and Kathleen Collins are as close as sisters and that’s how they want things to stay.But fate intervenes. Kathleen’s brothers have disappeared, they traveled from New York on the Orphan Train and nobody has heard from them since. She can’t shed her gut feeling something awful has happened to them. She goes looking for them but is she prepared for what she will find? Twins, Megan …
Twins, Megan and Eileen Doyle have lost so much already. Bella can’t let them travel on the Orphan Train alone. She must confront her fears and deal with her past. Can she keep the girls safe or will they too fall victim to abuse?
Both Bella and Kathleen are tested in ways they never dreamed possible. Will Justice prevail and allow both girls to get their happy ever after? Or is the cost simply too high?
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Historical information on the Orphan Trains of the late 19th century. Was informative, inspirational, historic and worthy.
Many of the ills described in the Orphan Train series (poverty, joblessness, homelessness, lack of education, abuse of children, etc.) still occur today, but hopefully not as often or as blatantly as the children in this series are treated. Orphans were sometimes treated as family members, sometimes as indentured servants, and sometimes as slaves. Orphans could be starved, whipped, raped, and treated as less than human. No social safety net existed to protect the children, and no one vetted the families before children were given to families. This book contains many of the same characters, but the focus is more on rescue.
Never thought of the orphan train this way before.
Unfortunately, the first page of each chapter did not download. Since the book has many short chapters, too much was missing to continue reading.
Again another great book in this series. It speaks of courage and the overcoming nature of the human spirit!
History amazes me to think that there were displaced families through the world due to occurences be it war or famine and worse those who happened to be together were separated as well but the means the helpers made sure families were kept together and kept safe despite the odds against the cause loved reading this
I loved this book!
I was interested to know a little about the orphan trains. While fictionalized it gave insight into what occurred at this time in history.
Very different. Sad and disturbing.
Good picture of history of the time. Well writen.
A snap shot of a earlier time.
I love books about Orphan trains to know that actually was a real thing opens up a piece of history for me.
Too many characters packed in to the book.
The orphan train series is interesting and true to life in that time in history.
I loved this book and the story of orphan history it teaches.
I had never heard of the orphan trains so this brought up a subject to research. I knew this went on in the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe but did not know it happened in the U.S.
Just an average book to read… Not riveting and I don’t recommend it. Somewhat predictable story although the characters were sometimes interesting.
Loved it!
I hadn’t read the first book in this series, so when I started reading this one – the second in the series – I had a hard time figuring out who was who. It seemed like I should have known who was who and what was going on. Later in the story, it was a little complicated and kept switching from one character to another and you would be reading along and want to know what was going to happen and – switch – to the other character. It was just a little too scrambled for me. Sorry
Historical fiction…