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A Promise for Tomorrow
First published 1998
When James Baldwin takes a new position with the B&O Railroad, he and Carolina decide to move their growing family from Baltimore to a small rural town in the Allegheny Mountains. Carolina''s stepdaughter, Victoria, becomes enthralled with handsome Kiernan, an Irish railroad worker.
But will the upper-class Baldwins even consider him as a suitor for their daughter? And when tensions rise among the workers, can James stop a destructive plan before it''s too late? Railroad expansion turns private ambition into a national project, while the Christian narrative measures technological progress against human cost, prejudice and family loyalty.
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