Celebrate Lit / March 18, 2025

A Constant Love

About the Book A Constant Love

Book: A Constant Love

Author: Tracie Peterson

Genre: Historical Romance

Release date: March 4, 2025

Heartache has left them emotionally desolate, but traces of love and healing could forge a future.

In the wake of a harsh winter, Micah Hamilton and Charlotte Aldrich are grappling with loss and guilt after the disaster that took the lives of their loved ones. Struggling to cope with his grief, Micah abandons his father’s dreams of a prosperous ranch and cuts himself off from the rest of the world.

Charlotte has loved Micah her entire life and is determined not to lose him as well. With her mother’s help, she begins coaxing Micah to live again. Despite their enduring heartache, the affection between them deepens, but just as Charlotte thinks her dreams may come true, a scorned suitor threatens everything she holds dear. Micah and Charlotte must embark on a journey of healing and renewal to build a life founded on faith, hope, and love.

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My Thoughts on A Constant Love

A Constant Love is a wonderful historical fiction novel. I love this author and her novels. They bring history to life in all the best ways. This novel takes place during the Great Die-Up. I recently read another novel that took place during this time period so the details were fresh in my mind.

If you haven’t read about the Great Die-Up, it was a time when lots and lots of animals died. People died too. The temperatures got so cold and the summer before had been a drought. It wasn’t like the modern day when you could have feed shipped to you and feed big round bales. While they could put up food for the winter the drought didn’t allow them to do what they normally would.

With all that death people suffered. And I’m not even talking about physically right now. I’m talking mentally. They gave up. They lost all hope. And that’s part of what this book focuses on. A man who loses hope and the woman who loves him.

Okay. So that’s some back story. Let’s get into the book.

Charlotte has always loved Micah. As long as she can remember she’s loved him. So when her father wants her to marry someone else she puts her foot down. Hard. Adamantly. She will not marry anyone she doesn’t love. Well. After a rather heated discussion of this nature, her father and brother ride out to find the cattle with a snowstorm brewing. And that’s the last she sees them. Ever.

Micah and his father are having their own disagreement when ranch hands from Charlotte’s family ranch come asking them to help look for the men. Well, it turns out the hands go back to the farm and Micah and his father go alone. I don’t want to give it all away, but this starts a change of unfortunate events.

And that chain of those two men dying sets off more than anyone could know. That man her father wants Charlotte to marry? Yeah him. He’s not as nice as her father thinks. He’s trouble. And he’s out to marry Charlotte still. Plus there are just a lot of things going wrong. Who can they trust? Where can they turn?

I loved the novel. I wanted to shake Charlotte a time or two. Oh, and yes Micah definitely. You’re going to want to as well. But all through the novel Charlotte’s mother is a wonderful calming presence and I love her strength and wisdom.

I have voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book which I received from Celebrate Lit. All views expressed are only my honest opinion. I was not required to write a positive review nor was I compensated in any other way. All opinions expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the FTC regulations.

About the Author of A Constant Love

Tracie Peterson is the bestselling author of more than 100 novels, both historical and contemporary, with more than 6 million copies sold. She has won the ACFW Lifetime Achievement Award and the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award. Her avid research resonates in her many bestselling series. Tracie and her family make their home in Montana.

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A Constant Love is a book near and dear to my heart. The book deals with the tragedy and loss that came about during and after the Great Die-Up—a hideous winter of blizzards and desperately cold temperatures that affected the prairie states and up into the Rockies. Many of the ranchers in the areas were completely wiped out and gave up their ranches when their cattle died off in record numbers.

Ranchers and farmers had dealt with the elements turning against them prior to this, but the winter of 1886–1887 was different. The summer of 1886 had brought about record droughts, and many of the crops had failed. The livestock suffered as the grass died off and feed wasn’t readily available. By November, early and heavy snows started and continued. Temperatures dropped to record lows.

In eastern Montana, the temperatures were said to drop to negative 63 degrees Fahrenheit.

In January, a Chinook wind warmed things considerably, melting a lot of the snow. This just made things worse, however, because when the plunging sub-zero temperatures returned, the water froze a thick layer on top of what little grass the animals had been able to dig down to eat. Mass starvation followed, and thousands upon thousands of animals were lost. In reading about the era and all that happened, I came across comments from people that showed the great despair that flooded the states involved. The hopelessness of it all was overwhelming.

During the same time I was researching and mapping out this book, a beloved family member committed suicide.

The devastation we felt was overwhelming, and it all seemed to come together with what I had been reading. I felt that deep sadness and despair. I read that some people had taken their lives after that winter. People were at a loss as to what to do, and in that day and age, the church was not always very kind to the families of those who killed themselves. As I prayed about the book I planned to write, I felt compelled to write about suicide and the ripple effect it has on family, friends, and even total strangers.

I wanted to share the hope that I found in God’s Word, and A Constant Love was born.

There are times in our lives when we are overwhelmed to the point of despair when giving up seems far easier than going on. I pray if you ever feel that way, you’ll reach out to someone and talk it through. But I also challenge those who aren’t feeling that way to be observant . . . to care about those around you enough to get in their business when things just don’t seem right. You might very well save a life. As the Bible says, we need to bear one another’s burdens.

I hope you’ll keep that in mind as you read A Constant Love.