Reason to Believe
Reason to Believe by Kathleen Eagle is an illustrated edition published by BelleBooks, Incorporated in July 2013. This contemporary fiction novel explores the complexities of marriage and family dynamics through the story of Clara and Ben Pipestone, who come from different backgrounds but unite in love. Thirteen years into their marriage, they face the challenges of Ben’s alcoholism and its impact on their daughter, Anna, leading to a critical turning point in their lives.
In an effort to reconnect and heal their fractured family, Clara and Ben embark on a two-week horseback journey across a harsh winter landscape, retracing the sacred land of Ben’s Lakota ancestors. This trek serves as a backdrop for their struggles and attempts to understand each other better while confronting their past. Readers will find themes of romance and the challenges faced by contemporary families woven throughout the narrative, as the Pipestones navigate their tumultuous relationship and seek to restore trust and unity. With 280 pages, this edition offers a rich exploration of love, betrayal, and the quest for redemption.
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Can their marriage survive the ultimate betrayal?
Young and passionately in love, Clara and Ben Pipestone came from vastly different worlds. She was a college student, studying the indigenous people of the Great Plains. He fixed cars in the winter and followed the amateur Indian rodeo circuit all summer. Ignoring those who doomed their relationship to failure, they married, settled into their life in Bismarck, North Dakota, and had a beautiful daughter, Anna.
But now, thirteen years later, Ben’s alcoholism blurs his judgment and lands him in the arms of another woman. The betrayal has torn their marriage apart, and their daughter is paying the price. Shoplifting, drinking, and running with a bad crowd, Anna is out of control. Determined to save their troubled teenage daughter, Clara and Ben take Anna and join a two week trek on horseback across an unforgiving winter terrain, a journey across sacred land in remembrance of Ben’s Lakota ancestors.
Can their journey bring them a better understanding of the past and each other? Can it heal their broken trust and unite them as a family?
Bestselling author Kathleen Eagle set aside a gratifying seventeen-year teaching career on a North Dakota Indian reservation to become a full-time novelist. The Lakota Sioux heritage of her husband and their three children has inspired many of her stories. Among her other honors, she has received the Romance Writers of America’s prestigious RITA Award.
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