About Victor’s Blessing by Barbara Sontheimer
Victor Gant is a half Osage blacksmith who makes a life for himself in spite of the death of beloved Indian mother, and the harshness of life with a drunkard of a father. He rises above all the heartache and marries his childhood sweetheart and is destined to live a blessed life. But blessings can be fleeting and when the Civil War erupts, he will have to make promises, and hard choices. And in order to keep one promise another must be broken, and he will be forced to bestow a heart wrenching blessing of his own. A saga taking the reader from the from the patent offices of Washington D.C. to the battle of Wilderness to the infamous Andersonville prison, and one man’s struggle to take care of those he loves even after death.
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Author Bio:
Barbara Sontheimer has a B.A. from a little college in the bootheel of Missouri and spent 15 years researching and writing Victor’s Blessing while raising 3 children. A fascination with the everyday life of the people not battles was the driving force. One of her greatest hopes for her novel is that someone turns out the light a bit too late on a work night, or (like she did) occasionally hid from her kids in the laundry room to finish a chapter. Barbara is married and lives in Lake Ozark, Missouri.
I’ve read this book and it is fantastic! Going to read it again for my book club!