Author Kathleen D. Bailey
Westward Hope
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Why him? Why here? Why now?Caroline Pierce O'Leary expects to work hard to earn her passage to the Oregon Country. She doesn't expect to find that the wagon train scout is a man with whom she shares a troubled past. Though Caroline is a Christian now, thanks to her late husband, she finds forgiving Michael to be the hardest part of her journey, harder even than the Trail.Michael Moriarty thought he'd left his past behind in "green and hurting Ireland." Seeing Caroline on his wagon train, brings his past to the forefront. With a price on his head, he doesn't want her to get hurt, but he can't deny what they were...and could still be.Michael once betrayed Caroline in the worst possible way. Can she trust him to get her across the Oregon Trail? Can he trust himself to accept her forgiveness and God's?
The Author
Author Kathleen D. Bailey
About the Author
I'm a journalist and novelist living in Southern New Hampshire. I was a child int he 50s, a teen in the 60s, a young adult in the 70s and a young mom in the 80s. It's been a rich, colorful time to grow up and I've enjoyed all of it and written about most of it.
I've wanted to write fiction since I began reading it, at the age of five, and my dream was fulfilled -- wait for it -- at the age of 69. That's how long God took to get ahold of me and get me in the right place to experience success. I published my first Christian historical romance, "Westward Hope," with Pelican Book Group in 2019; the sequel, "Settlers' Hope," in July 2020; two related novellas, "The Logger's Christmas Bride" and "The Widow's Christmas Miracle" in December 2019 and 2020 respectively; and just saw the publication of the last "Western Dreams" book, "Redemption's Hope," in July 2022.
I had always seen nonfiction as a way to pay the bills, but I wrote two nonfiction local history books, "Past and Present Exeter New Hampshire" and "New Hampshire War Monuments: The Stories behind the Stones," both with Arcadia Publishing, and somewhere along the way I fell in love with nonfiction. It's the same dynamic -- telling stories -- and I hope to be around to tell many more.
I live in New Hampshire with my husband David and have two grown daughters.