THE MERCHANT'S DAUGHTER

by

Melanie Dickerson

                                               

ISBN: 9780310727613

Paperbaack, 284 pages

Zondervan Publisher

Melanie Dickerson

Melanie Dickerson is the author of The Healer’s Apprentice, a Christy Award finalist and winner of the National Reader’s Choice Award for Best First Book. Melanie earned a bachelor’s degree in special education from the University of Alabama and has been a teacher and a missionary. She lives with her husband and two daughters in Huntsville, Alabama.

My Thoughts:

This book was inspired by the story "The Beauty and the Beast" and as Annabel Chapman was forced into the role of a servant for the beastly Lord Ranulf le Wyse when her family who was once welthy merchants was forced to go into debt.

She is burdened with all the household duties and also had to help harvest the barley stalks and also cook for all the others.  She was having a very hard life and she was forced into doing jobs she had never done before.  Her family also wanted her to marry the Lord so that they could save their home and to keep her brother from having to do hard work.  Seems to me they really used the women in the families to take care of the lazy men and boys.

Lord Ranulf le Wyse was known to terrifying and beastly and the Lord's bailiff, a bad man in his own had made advances on her.  She just wanted out of this house, but with no hope of leaving and she wishes there was someway she could kill the Lord Wyse but could she do this as she knew he needed to accept God and she needed to get closer to God and try to do what he wanted from her.

Thanks so much to Zondervan publishing for sending me this book to review and I did so in my own words.