To Wager Her Heart

A Belle Meade Plantation Novel, Book 3

By: Tamera Alexander

Narrated by: Melba Sibrel

Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins

Publisher's summary

Can a railroad man and a Southern belle turned teacher find a way to work together to achieve their dreams in the new reality of the post-Civil War South?

Sylas Rutledge, former gambler and new owner of the East Line Railway, invests everything he has into this venture, partly to see if he can do it - but mostly to avenge his father. One man holds the key to the railway's success - General William Giles Harding of Nashville's Belle Meade Plantation. But Harding is champagne and thoroughbreds, and Sylas Rutledge is beer and bullocks. Sy needs someone to help him maneuver in high society, and when he meets Alexandra Donelson, he quickly decides he's found his tutor.

Spurning her family's wishes that she marry, Alexandra Donelson is pursuing her passion for teaching at Fisk University, the first freedmen's university in the United States. But her family does not approve, and ultimately her father expels her from the family home and cuts her off completely.

Through her friendship with Mary Harding, Alexandra is thrown together with both General Harding and Sylas Rutledge. And she soon finds herself falling in love with a man whose roguish qualities and adventuresome spirit smack more of recklessness than responsibility.

Sylas Rutledge will risk everything to win the hand of the woman he loves. What he doesn't count on is having to wager her heart to do it.

Set at Nashville's historic Belle Meade Plantation, To Wager Her Heart is a sweeping Southern love story about a nation mending after war, the struggle to move a country forward, and the courage of a man and woman to see themselves for who they truly are - and can be - with each other.

©2017 Tamera Alexander (P)2017 Zondervan

Another Enjoyable Read

I love everything that Tamara Alexander writes. I discovered her "by accident" a few years ago and have spent many enjoyable hours reliving early history of our country. She has such a wonderful way to showing us history and the Lord. She has been given a gift that she shares with all of us in each book that she writes.

My first audio book was very special!

I enjoy reading books by Tamara Alexander! This has been another wonderful book covering some of the happenings in the history of that time along with a very sweet love story!

wordy

Too much preaching to the crowd or the choir and I am a member of the choir but there was too much over and over again

Deeply emotional

So appreciative of Alexander's time and perspective with this book. Fantastic story with a beautiful glimpse into the culture and struggle of the time.

Enjoyed this book and series very much

My husband and I listened to this book and we both enjoyed it. The book gives not only a romance story line but a look into culture and the business world in those days. God is great and has brought us a long way.
Recommend to those that enjoy clean moral reading along with adventure.

Great read!

I love historical fiction. Also, the faith that was instilled in the characters made this an amazing read.

The story was interesting but narration was not good.

The story was interesting as far as historical insight into post-civil war times. But narration was not good. At first I thought the narration was done by automation. It took quite awhile to get into the story.

To E after Her Heart

As al-

ways Tamera Alexander has not disappointed.
I enjoyed this book.I was disappointed when it ended.

Historical stories are wonderful

The striking stories are amazing pulling you into history. It’s like living back then and witnessing the old south

Fantastic Listen!

Another fantastic book from Tamera Alexander! Thank you NetGalley for providing an ebook copy but I waited on the audible.com download and purchased this title for a wonderful listen. Readers will gain insight into the struggles African-American student faced, in specific at Tufts University in Nashville, and those who aided them. Entwined in the story is a beautiful romance between a very unlikely couple. The background also includes great tidbits about railroads and the men who built and ran them as well as the very real dangers faced in railroad travel after the Civil War. I plan to re-read (re-listen!) this story, something I don't often do!