To Wager Her Heart Audiobook (Free)
- Melba Sibrel
- Zondervan Publishing Company
- 2017-08-08
Summary:
Set against the history of Nashville’s Belle Meade Plantation and the initial Fisk School Jubilee Singers ensemble, To Wager Her Heart is a stirring like story about looking for justice and restoring honor at a time in American history when both were tenuous and hard-won.
With fates bound by a shared tragedy, a reformed gambler from your Colorado Territory and a Southern Belle bent on breaking free from society’s goals must interact to achieve their dreams-provided the truth about To Wager Her Heart doesn’t tear them apart first.
Sylas Rutledge, fresh owner of the Northeast Series Railroad, invests everything he has into this fresh venture, partly for the sake of the task. But mainly to very clear his father’s name. One guy holds the key to Sy’s success-General William Giles Harding of Nashville’s Belle Meade Plantation. But Harding is usually champagne and thoroughbreds, and Sy Rutledge is definitely beverage and bullocks.
Sy needs you to definitely help him maneuver through Nashville’s culture, so when he meets Alexandra Jamison, he quickly decides he’s found his tutor. But he quickly discovers that the train incident his father is certainly blamed for leading to is what wiped out Alexandra’s fiancé and shattered her globe.
Spurning an organized marriage by her pops, Alexandra instead pursues her passion for teaching at Fisk University, the first freedmen’s university in america. But family-and Nashville society-do not approve, and she quickly finds herself cast out from both.
Through connections with the Harding family, Alexandra and Sy become unlikely allies. And despite 1st impressions, Alexandra steadily finds herself arriving at respect as well as look after this man. But how can she, when her center continues to be spoken for?
Sy is willing to risk everything to make an impression on the woman he loves. What he doesn’t count on is having to bet her heart to accomplish it.