Kim Vogel Sawyer’s book is a story about a girl who has a dream of singing and a desire to help her struggling family. Sadie Wagner wants to help her family, but doesn’t know what she can do. Then a letter comes from her cousin, Sid. There is a job opening for a clerk at the local mercantile and the possibility of singing in the local opera house. She packs and heads to Goldtree, Kansas. There she meets sisters Melva and Shelva Baxter, the owners of the mercantile. Welcomed with open arms, Sadie finds she is loved and cared for in her new home. But the opera house is not what she expected. Asa Baxter has built a concrete, well insulated opera room underground and off the basement room of the mercantile. Why there? The answer is revealed as the reader finds that all is not as Asa would like everyone to believe. Sadie and Sid find they are involved in the bootleg business of drink and gambling. She as the entertainment for a secret evening gathering of men interested in the liquor and gambling and Sid as the freight driver who has been transporting the alcohol labeled as molasses and vinegar. Are they destined for prison?
Taking place in 1865, this story could have just as easily taken place during the Prohibition period of our history. Lest I forget, there is a love story involved here. Sadie finds that Sid, a cousin by marriage, and the new sheriff both want to court her. It took me only about 5 evenings to read this book. Difficult to put down, I wanted to know the outcome.
I received this book to review for free from Bethany House.
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