The setting for this Christian Romance is 1874 Corsicana, Texas. The heroine is Essie Spreckelmeyer, a tall, skinny, opinionated 30-year-old spinster who collects snakes and slides down banisters, and whose father is the local judge. She schemes to snag herself a husband, but the town’s eligible bachelors are understandably intimidated by her. Essie’s comical romantic blunders with one man after another end when she gives up entirely on romance and opens a bicyclists’ exercise club. Whi


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