The Cup of Strength (Northwest fiction)
Category: Fiction: Women's
Author: Charlotte Paul
Copyright/published Year: 1958 by Random House
Binding: Hardcover
It's 1893 in the town of Gold Mountain and the Snoqualmie
Valley of Washington state -- several years after the events of
"Gold Mountain." Into this now peaceful community comes young
Merrie Cowen, ready to give birth, while searching for the
husband who has abandoned her.
She will find no lack of those ready to comfort and protect
her. There's Nils and Katherine Bengston, now proprietors of a
prosperous inn. There's old Dr. Adams, who recognizes and
nurtures in Merrie a burning need to help others. There's Brother
Bill, the itinerant preacher, now ready to settle in Gold
Mountain and head the church, if only he can find a wife to share
the duties. And there's Jeff Smith, son of a Southern gentleman
and owner of a profitable lumber camp -- a man never content with
where he is, and uncertain what he wants. That is, until he meets
Merrie.
But Merrie is out of reach of any man, because she is already
married. And just when he is least wanted, Jim Cowen steps back
into Merrie's life. Vain, manipulative, delusional, abusive, he
has made life a hell for Merrie during their brief marriage, and
now may be a danger to their son. But can she find the strength
to break free, when she has come to pity him as much as she once
loved him?
There in the valley -- in her new life, in her friends, in the
man who has quietly won her heart, and in a mother's love -- she
must find the answer to that question, and the key to her
future.
Condition Information
This is a used book.
Condition Description
1958 Book Club Edition. Previous owner's name pencilled on front endpaper. Some wear to the cover.
