The Town That Needed Raising - Couverture souple

Miller, Shane P

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798235280175

Editeur : Shane P Miller, 2026

Synopsis

Mercy Creek is a frontier town with more pride than sense and one last chance to prove it deserves a railroad freight stop before rival town Dry Fork takes the prize. To qualify, Mercy Creek must show more than charm. It needs a safe road, a reinforced bridge, a usable depot site, reliable water access, honest freight records, a functioning schoolhouse, and enough civic order to convince the railroad it can handle real business. Bram Whitaker planned to pass through town, earn wages, and move on. Instead, the rugged repairman finds himself fixing everything Mercy Creek has ignored for years: rotten boards, crooked roads, leaky roofs, weak bridges, bad ledgers, and men who think talking counts as work. Zella Mae Quarles, the town's brilliant teacher and record keeper, has been carrying Mercy Creek on her shoulders for too long. Sharp, disciplined, and impossible to fool, she knows the town cannot be raised by pretending. It must tell the truth, do the work, and become worthy of the chance it wants. As rain exposes every weakness, a goat eats the wrong papers, children tell uncomfortable truths, and townspeople learn humility one shovel at a time, Bram and Zella discover something neither planned for: home may not be something you find. Sometimes you build it-together. Funny, warm, clean, and faith-shaped without preaching, The Town That Needed Raising is a family-friendly Western comedy about truth, work, love, community, and one stubborn town learning how to stand.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Shane P Miller
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798235280175
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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