Fairer Than Morning by Rosslyn Elliott

This is a book about a young girl named Ann Miller who is pursued by Eli Bowen. Eli likes alot of the same things that Ann likes and Ann believes that he is the one she is to marry. When Eli asks Ann to marry him she says no she is to young her father would not allow it. Eli walks away up the riverbank and Ann is numb, somehow she must persuade her father to let her marry Eli. Anns father is not to be persuaded he tells Ann her mother would not have allow it. Anns mother died in childbirth and Ann is helping her father raise her two younger sisters, Susan and Mabel.
     A short time later Ann sees Eli with Phoebe and Ann just wanted to run. Eli and Phoebe are seen together at all the town events. Ann can not understand it because she thought that God had let her know she was to marry Eli.
     Anns father plans a business trip to Pittsburgh and Ann asks him if she can go along He agrees but she must be responsible for her sisters. In Pittsburgh they meet a young boy who is so deprived and he is the one who is going to work with her father. Will who is an apprentice for the period of five years to learn the trade of saddlery has been treated rather unkind by his master. Ann gets to know Will and when the Millers leave to return home and to their ministry Will is determined he will find them.
      What will happen if and when Will finds Ann and what will happen with Eli? What is their ministry?   DISCLOSURE OF MATERIAL CONNECTION: I received this book free from Thomas Nelson Publishing. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255