No one thought that the Second Street boarding house would be destroyed by arsonists. No one wanted to believe that Nate Johnson would be beaten simply because of his race. But things have gotten ugly in Blaineton, New Jersey. It is in the middle of the Civil War and the abolitionist sympathies of the people in Maggie Blaine Smith’s boarding house have made them a target for racist and Copperhead forces. When the violence threatens to get worse, Maggie’s husband Eli has a proposal for them: … [Read more...] about Walk by Faith: Saint Maggie Series Book #2 by Janet R. Stafford

Maggie Blaine, a widow with two teenage daughters, runs a rooming house smack dab on the town square. In 1860 this makes her a social outcast. Boarding houses are only semi-respectable and hers has a collection of eclectic boarders – a failed writer, an undertaker’s apprentice, a struggling young lawyer, and an indigent old Irishman. In addition, she has a friendship with Emily and Nate, an African-American couple with whom she shares her home and chores. Lucky thing the town doesn’t know … [Read more...] about Saint Maggie by Janet R. Stafford