The old man was more annoying and silly than a fearful suitor. She could have easily set things straight by announcing the misunderstanding. Ruth's situation didn't grab me as being sever enough to run away. I'm just wondering how many of her leading females are going to threaten their men at gun point and still end up being loved and cherished by them by the end of the book.

Guess I liked the book fine, but it wasn't one of her better books. She and her husband are very involved in their church, and active in supporting mission work in Mali, West Africa. They have three grown sons, three daughter-in-laws, and six wonderful grandchildren, and two great-granddaughters. Lori and her husband of over forty years, Lance, live in Springfield, Missouri, surrounded by the beautiful Ozarks. She has also collaborated with authors Angela Elwell Hunt or Virginia Smith on a series of Christian romance novels. Her subsequent books have been in the relatively new subgenre of Christian romance. She has been inducted into the Missouri Writers Hall of Fame.ĭespite her success in more mainstream romantic fiction, in 1995, she decided to switch focus. Over the next dozen years, her romance novels achieved much success, as was evidenced by her winning the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award, The Holt Medallion, and Walden Books' Best Seller award. She had a relatively late start in writing, breaking into publishing in 1982 when she was already forty years old.

Ruth by Lori Copeland