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This newest book is about spirited young Katherine Taggart, nicknamed "Rusty" for her curly red hair. As the story opens, Rusty is working at her aunt and uncle's orphanage, but soon goes on an orphanage placement trip with kind and reserved widower Chase McCandles.
When Chase asks Rusty to become a companion for his young son, Rusty agrees because she feels the little boy needs her. The joy she brings to the household and to Quentin will remind readers of Deborah Kerr in "The King and I" or of Julie Andrews in "The Sound of Music." (Wick says Rusty is much like her niece: bouncy, impetuous, yet intelligent and caring.) The story has an obvious but very satisfying ending.
Wick is a worker. Her first novel was published in 1988, and Promise Me Tomorrow is her seventeenth book. (Thatıs almost two per year.) A wife and mother of three "really special kids," ages 8, 11, and 14, she tells us that she writes for her own age group, with "me in mind" and that her imagination runs to romance.
Regardless, her stories have two qualities that make them exceptional: lots of good conversation between characters and very natural spiritual elements. Wick is not into analyzing her stories -- she's too busy writing. She just hopes her books will be fun to read and will speak of Christ to readers. She hit the mark with this one!
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