What must he surrender in exchange for love?
About the Book: Milo Digsby
remembers life before he rode the orphan train to Clabber Mills, Indiana,
including the farm back in England where his father worked so hard. He’s always
done his best to get along, but now as a grown man he’s being asked to give up
the one thing he won’t: his name.
Jessica Downing is the new
schoolteacher in Clabber Mills, though she prefers her ancestral vocation of
fortuneteller and witch. Milo stirs her instincts and her desire. But before
she can belong to him, this man so often denied his liberty must have the
chance to choose his future, even if it doesn’t include the gift of her heart.
Our Review: While all of the
books in this marvelous series are clear examples of what is known as “character
arcs”, Slow Train to Nowhere: Milo is clearly the strongest to date. Having
buried all of his emotions under a flannel shirt, Milo ‘Digger’ Digsby makes a
life for himself—dismal as it is—even when his dreams are thwarted at every
turn. The hubris demonstrated by the citizens of Clabbers Mills knows no
bounds, each day inventing new reasons to drive Milo, and other survivors of
the Orphan Train, from their tight-knit puritanical community, simply
because they can.
Readers would be wise to remember this
important adage: If we forget the past, we are doomed to repeat it.
