June leaves for Washington to become the wife of a pastor. When she arrives, she finds her betrothed is ill. Not thinking it anything too serious, she gets to know the other people that belong to the Evangelistic Crusade that Eli (her betrothed) has dedicated his life to. When Eli passes away, June wonders if her decision to become a mail-order bride was God's plan for her. Confident that it was, she decides her new calling is to stay on and help see Eli's dream of building a tabernacle dedicated to God realized. When Eli's best friend, Parker Sentell speaks of his displeasure about the tabernacle, June realizes not everyone is as excited about the Reverend Inman and his crusade. June soon begins to spread herself thin working with the crusade, ministring to logging camps in the vacinity, and helping out her friend whose Aunt runs the local orphanage. When the needs of the orphange begins to pull at June's heart strings, she begins to wonder if it is really God's will that the tabernacle be built, or just the obsession of Reverand Inman. When her feelings begin to grow for Parker Sentell she finds herself in a quandry of a different sort.June was an enjoyable book. Though it was slow in places and predictable I continued to read, wanting to know how it ended. This wasn't a fast past book or page turner, but I enjoyed the characters, the setting, and Lori Copeland's easy way of writing.
Knowing that June the youngest sister was going to be a mail-order-bride to a preacher, I was a little leary that this book would be a little too churchie, but I was surprised. There was a little more gospel relation in the plot, but there was still the struggle of June trying to find her way in the world and the know what direction the Lord wanted her to go. Like her sisters her journey to becoming a bride wasn't cut and dry. She arrived in Seattle after meeting a wonderful friend, Samantha to
