Adult Review - Healing the Mountain Man's Heart - historical romance

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About the Book

Book: Healing the Mountain Man’s Heart

Author: Misty M. Beller

Genre: Christian Historical Romance

Release Date: August 15, 2023

In the wild mountains of the Montana Territory, the Coulter ranch is a place of family, loyalty…and a hidden fortune.

Jericho Coulter, the eldest of six fiercely devoted brothers, is entrusted with safeguarding his family and the secret that binds them together: the Sapphire mine. To keep tragedy from striking again, he allows no outsiders on their land. When two women stumble upon their ranch, claiming Jericho himself sent for one of them as a mail-order bride, he aims to send them straight back where they came from.
Dinah Wyatt, a talented and determined doctor, wasn’t about to let her twin sister travel to Montana alone and marry a stranger. Dinah’s skills are immediately put to the test when one of the younger Coulter brothers is gravely injured, forcing the family to trust his life to her.As Dinah and her sister become entwined in the Coulter family’s life, sparks fly between the enigmatic Jericho and the captivating doctor. In a world where trust is hard to come by and secrets hold the power to change lives, Jericho and Dinah must learn that sometimes, the most precious secrets are those buried within our own hearts.

From a USA Today bestselling author comes a mountain family saga filled with a mail-order bride, hidden treasure, and love that heals wounded hearts.

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My Adult Review

Beller, Misty M. Healing the Mountain Man’s Heart. 2023.
Brothers of Sapphire Ranch book 1

I have been following Misty Beller for a number of years. I try to never miss one of her books. I am always excited to start a new series that she has written. Healing the Mountain Man’s Heart is the first book in her Brothers of Sapphire Ranch series.

I have always been fascinated by the early women doctors. I was happy to see a woman doctor as one of the main characters in Healing the Mountain Man’s Heart. Dinah kind of reminds me of Dr. Quinn from the old tv show Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.

I appreciated the faith and trust Dinah and her sister Naomi placed in God. They truly relied on Him to help solve the problems in their lives.

Dinah and Naomi are twins who are traveling west to escape how they would be looked upon once the community discovered Naomi is pregnant and not married. This book does not reveal the circumstances surrounding the pregnancy. Nor does it explain why the girls were apparently raised by their grandparents.

Dinah learned how to doctor by following her Pops on his rounds from a young age. Her plan is to open a clinic in a town once she has Naomi settled with the man who requested a mail order bride.

Things get interesting when it is discovered that Jericho’s orphaned niece and nephew put the mail order bride advertisement in the paper and Jericho has no interest in a wife.

Naomi and Dinah love the people around them, letting God’s love shine through them. Gradually that light breaks through the tough exterior of several of the brothers.

I can’t wait to see where Beller takes the Coulter brothers in future books in this series.

While Healing the Mountain Man’s Heart is an adult historical fiction novel, there is nothing that would keep it from being added to a K-12 Christian school library. It is appropriate for grades 8 and up.

I received a complimentary copy of Healing the Mountain Man’s Heart. This is my honest review.

About the Author – Misty M. Beller

Misty M. Beller is a USA Today bestselling author of romantic mountain stories, set on the 1800s frontier and woven with the truth of God’s love.

Raised on a farm and surrounded by family, Misty developed her love for horses, history, and adventure. These days, her husband and children provide fresh adventure every day, keeping her both grounded and crazy.

Misty’s passion is to create inspiring Christian fiction infused with the grandeur of the mountains, writing historical romance that displays God’s abundant love through the twists and turns in the lives of her characters.

Sharing her stories with readers is a dream come true for Misty. She writes from her country home in South Carolina and escapes to the mountains any chance she gets.

More from Misty Beller

Sapphires in Montana? Are you sure?

When I was brainstorming ideas for my new series, I knew I wanted the stories to be set on a ranch amidst the breathtaking beauty of the Montana mountains. But I wanted something a little more unusual than that. I know, what could be more special than a ranch in the Rockies?

So I brought the conundrum to some writer friends and asked for help brainstorming. There’s nothing quite so fascinating as a group of writers in full brainstorming mode. Since the series is set during the mining boom in Montana, we discussed the idea of some kind of mine on the ranch, but not gold or silver. Or even copper. The remarkable Sarah Erredge (who writes as S.E. Warren) suggested Sapphires.

That thought immediately grabbed hold of me (especially since the Sapphire is the birthstone for my month of September). But I’d never heard of Sapphires being discovered in Montana. That seemed impossible… Right?

Until some quick research showed there are three well-known pockets of Sapphires in the state! Rock Creek is one of those locations, and is positioned perfectly for where I wanted to set my story—west of Helena and about a half day’s ride from the Mullan Road.

The timing of Sapphire discoveries in the state is perfect for my series as well. Early prospectors searching for gold in the gravel of the Missouri River repeatedly discarded the annoying blue pebbles that continually clogged their sluices without much thought to what they may be. It wasn’t discovered that these “pebbles” were Sapphires until 1895 when a man named Ed Coulter forwarded samples of these stones to Tiffany & Co. When Tiffany purchased the lot for $3,750 (approximately $110,300 as of 2018) and declared that the stones were “sapphires of unusual quality,” a small-scale sapphire rush began.

This rush is exactly what the Coulter brothers in the Brothers of Sapphire Ranch series are trying to avoid. That’s why they keep the Sapphire mine on their property secret during this first book in the series, Healing the Mountain Man’s Heart.

I pray you love book 1 in this new series and fall as deeply in love with this ranch in the Rockies as I have, especially with the Brothers of Sapphire Ranch. 

Blessings!

Misty