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Laura's Shadow

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Family Secrets Spill One Conversation at a Time

Visit historic American landmarks through the Doors to the Past series. History and today collide in stories full of mystery, intrigue, faith, and romance.
De Smet, South Dakota—1890
Young women growing up in DeSmet live by two rules: don't go out in a snowstorm and don't give your heart to Cap Garland. Young Mariah Patterson only managed to obey one. Orphaned and having devoted her youth to scrapping out a life with her brother Charles, Mariah finds herself with no interesting suitors or means of support. Throwing caution to the wind, she seizes an opportunity to lay her feelings at Cap's feet, even though she knows Cap sees the world through the torch he carries for Laura Ingalls. Mariah is certain her love for Cap will be strong enough to break both bonds, and she's willing to risk everything to prove it.

De Smet, South Dakota—1974
Trixie Gowan is the fourth generation of living Gowan women residing in the sprawling farmhouse on the outskirts of De Smet. Well, former resident. She's recently moved to Minneapolis, where she writes ads for a neighborhood paper edited by Ron Tumble. She might live and work in the city, but her co-workers still call her Prairie Girl. Thus the inspiration for her comic strip—"Lost Laura"—in which a bespectacled girl in a calico dress tries to make her way in the city. The name is a quiet rebellion having grown up in a household where she'd been forbidden to mention the name, Laura Ingalls. But when her great-grandmother Mariah's declining health brings Trixie home for a visit, two things might just keep her there: the bedside manner of Dr. Campbell Carter and the family secret that seems to be spilling from GG's lips one conversation at a time.
Don't miss other great books in the Doors to the Past series:
The Lady in Residence by Allison Pittman
Hope Between the Pages by Pepper Basham
Bridge of Gold by Kimberley Woodhouse
Undercurrent of Secrets by Rachel Scott McDaniel
Behind Love's Wall by Carrie Fancett Pagels
High-Wire Heartbreak by Anna Schmidt
Love's Fortress by Jennifer Uhlarik
A Promise Engraved by Liz Tolsma
Laura's Shadow by Allison Pittman
Passages of Hope by Terri Haynes
In Spotlight and Shadow by Rachel Scott McDaniel
The Keys to Gramercy Park by Candice Sue Patterson

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 27, 2022
      Pittman’s enjoyable latest (after The Lady in Residence) dives into the world of Laura Ingalls Wilder. In 1890s South Dakota, Mariah Patterson pines after the handsome Oscar “Cap” Garland, but he’s carrying a torch for Laura Ingalls, who was Mariah’s schoolteacher before marrying Cap’s friend Almanzo Wilder. Mariah is courted by Merrill Gowan, an amiable but dull bachelor whom Mariah’s uninterested in until a fateful night with Cap leads her to realize Merrill might be the answer to her prayers. In 1970s Minneapolis, Mariah’s great-granddaughter Trixie Gowan works at a small newspaper where her Lost Laura comic about her adjustment to city life garners attention from national outlets. However, after Trixie receives word that her 104-year-old great-grandmother is dying, she rushes home to South Dakota. To make peace with the past, Mariah discloses long-held secrets, including her grudge against Laura Ingalls for her unflattering fictionalized portrayal of Mariah in the book These Happy Golden Years, as well as the truth about what happened between Mariah and Cap. Pittman’s appreciation of the Little House series shines through as she pays homage to the books while offering a fresh perspective on them, notably by imagining rich backstories for the minor Ingalls characters Cap and Mariah (named Martha in the original). Little House devotees will delight in this.

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