Mountain Laurel

Bestselling author Jude Deveraux spins a rollicking story of a mismatched couple who unearth a sparkling, irresistible passion across the rugged West! Captain Ring Montgomery was handsome, a skilled rider, a crack shot, popular with the men and their ladies. That was reason enough for a jealous, surly colonel to saddle Montgomery with a most peculiar assignment: to escort an opera singer into the Colorado gold fields. Ring’s plan was to scare the little lady enough so that she’d hightail it for home. After all, a Civil War was brewing! But LaReina, The Singing Duchess—as Maddie was called—didn’t scare easily. And she didn’t intend to explain her reasons for coming West to any high and mighty soldier. Captain Montgomery might be smart enough to figure out that she was no European duchess, and gentleman enough not to take advantage of her. But he’d have to go on thinking she had some insane desire to sing opera to a bunch of ragtag miners—for she didn’t dare trust him with the truth…

Includes discussion questions and an excerpt from the next book in the series.

The book is mainly about experiences I've had in my life. Living in various states gave me varied experiences which I've writen about. Some of the writing could perhaps be defined as my search for meaning of my life. And there are some writings which are about other things.

The Mountain Laurel Man tells the inspiring, true story of a coal miner and his family set in McCreary County, Kentucky, located in the southeastern part of the Appalachian Mountains. The children wait with bated breath for the arrival of the Mountain Laurel Man; will he come today to take them on an adventure? When he finally appears at their door one morning, he takes them to the most beautiful place on earth. They rejoice in the beauty of their surroundings and in God's love for them. But who is the Mountain Laurel Man? These children share the beauty of nature and God's love with their friends, neighbors, and family. Despite their challenging surroundings and the harshness of the life they live, they revel in the happiness of their surroundings. The Mountain Laurel Man is a heartwarming tale that highlights the love of an Appalachian father for his children and their positive outlook on life.

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Laruel Mountain Laruel: the title is a sort of rough palindrome, appropriate for Jake Reinhart's vision, in which time is reflected upon itself and the end is also the beginning (and is also the end). The transient and the enduring are revealed to be one and the same. These photographs - somehow both tender and unsparing - were made in Southwest Pennsylvania, in the Youghiogheny region. One surviving translation has it that "Yough" means four, and "henné" means stream. "I've been along those four streams, and I've seen how they come together," Reinhart says, "losing their specificity yet retaining what is inherent to each - creating something larger and joining places and people that would otherwise appear disjointed and separate." As for the streams, so for the images in Laruel Mountain Laurel: individual pictures exist essentially, while together they bind both space and time - the eternal and the geological brought into a semblance of coherence with the fragile and the human. We see that, despite our best efforts to erase and exploit, the land will ultimately have its own way, and on its own schedule. --