Love Remains

Eden’s third entry in her Longing for Home series (after Hope Springs) revisits the frontier town of Hope Springs, Wyo., in 1871 as a nearly blind Englishwoman falls for the brother of her latest student. Cecily Attwater, who is gradually losing her eyesight due to a progressive illness, travels across America assisting those with diminished vision. Her latest assignment is to help Finbarr O’Connor, a young man who was blinded in a fire. Finbarr is incredibly resistant to her offer of assistance, and his older brother Tavish and many other members of their Irish community dislike Cecily because she is English. Tension between Cecily and Finbarr spurs the novel forward, and the emotional moments shared between them are one of the novel’s primary strengths. Readers who enjoy romances with greater depth of feeling and less detailed love scenes will likely fall for this book. Agent: Pam Howell, D4EO Literary. (Sept.)