Secrets of the Stream

The Burden of Secrets Could Cost Her More Than Her Heart...Jane Randolph's residence in Copper Creek had not been of sufficient duration to know how many secrets were concealed behind its friendly doors or beneath its shimmering namesake. Orphaned as a child, she had come to live in the serene Missouri town with her Uncle Michael and his family at their General Store and was too grieved and inexperienced to consider the dubious history of her new community or its residents. Content to...
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The Burden of Secrets Could Cost Her More Than Her Heart...Jane Randolph's residence in Copper Creek had not been of sufficient duration to know how many secrets were concealed behind its friendly doors or beneath its shimmering namesake. Orphaned as a child, she had come to live in the serene Missouri town with her Uncle Michael and his family at their General Store and was too grieved and inexperienced to consider the dubious history of her new community or its residents. Content to belong to her uncle's family and share in their work, as well as, their prestige, Jane allowed her ignorance to persist throughout the intervening years. But during the summer of 1880, the arrival of two strangers begins to unravel the mystery of a hidden copper mine that had shrouded the town in legend for decades. Eager to dismiss the news as gossip, Jane's encounters with the dashing architect, Thomas Mason and the town's inscrutable new minister, Henry Kohl, begin to make her suspect there may be substance to the rumors. But her doubts are further complicated by the unsettling attentions of both men.Caught between the affections of Mr. Mason and Mr. Kohl, Jane must determine which man's declarations are sincere and how their interest in her relates to a worrying discovery of duplicity among her own family. Yet, the deeper Jane delves into the motives and memories of others, the greater her fears become that if she makes the wrong choice, she may lose far more than her heart.