How does Meg Jordan tell her father that the man he has chosen for her to marry is out to hurt her? Young Meg adores her father, but balks at his choice of a husband for her, the affluent and arrogant Joseph Pyle. Her future mate is determined to dictate all aspects of Meg’s future. Meg wants to teach school, but one strange incident of vandalism after another prevents the completion of a schoolhouse.
She struggles to hide her growing attraction to Colin Grassick, the new glassblower who arrives to work for her father’s glassworks. He captures her heart with his warm, considerate ways and his competent assistance, from helping her rescue a kitten in danger to fashioning new windows for the school.
In The Glassblower, Laurie Alice Eakes immerses her readers in the daily life of early nineteenth century New Jersey. There, she introduces characters bound by moral constraints that prevent two people of different social classes from declaring their love and a woman from pursuing the career of her dreams because a future husband disapproves.
The author skillfully weaves a story of romance, intrigue, and faith as she guides her characters down roads of despair, frustration, and, ultimately, triumph.
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