About One Day at a Time (Town of Hope Series Book 1)
The town of Hope was a ghost town, or all most. The gold was gone as was most of the population. So an ad was placed in the newspapers back east to attract people wanting to start over in a rebuilding community. Interested parties were asked to show up in Independence, Missouri, to join the wagon train to the Montana territories headed by Grant Taylor.
Families came from many places and backgrounds. The Santini family consisting of a potential rancher, a teacher, a nurse and a homemaker. The Collins family, made up of a sheriff and his father with a mental disorder, also answered the call. The Keegan’s came. He was a carpenter and his wife was pregnant with their first child. Finley Callahan was grieving over the loss of his wife. He came with his three children and his younger sister.
George Whitney and his family packed up his whole general store. They were joined by three black families who had worked for Whitney for a long time. Harrison Duncan lost his sight in the war, but with his mother’s help and his son, they thought they could start over and welcomed the challenge. Thornton’s wagon held two frightened young girls who constantly wore bruises. They wanted to start a new life, but not with Thornton.
These families all had something they could contribute to a new future in Hope. But first, Grant Taylor had his work cut out for him leading a wagon train for more than a thousand miles across rivers, desert, mountains, desperadoes, Indians, disease, and bad weather. But he was a man who met life head on taking it one day at a time.
