The Spanish flu epidemic is at it's peak and most of the men are fighting in the WW1; so when Rebecca finds herself in her Aunt's small Texas town there is no one to greet her. Once she finds her Aunt she is shocked to find her so desperately ill, but also caring for four motherless children whose father is fighting the war. Rebecca never expected to find herself so boxed in as she waited for her planned future to unfold, but she can't leave these children to fend for themselves. So she becomes like a temporary mother to them and as she mother's them she also falls in love with them.
But what about her plans? This is the type of life she most definitely did not want! Will Arthur return to marry her and whisk her away from this awful small town life? What about the children she loves more each day? And what about Frank (the children's father)? What happens when he comes home to find his wife dead and his children in the care of a stranger?
This book was a delightful surprise! I intrigued by the timeline of the novel being set in the midst of the Spanish flu epidemic and World War One. My imagination had never thought about what it would have been like to live in that time period and experience the struggles that Rebecca suffered. Wings of a Dream was so well written that I blazed through it very quickly and thoroughly enjoyed the novel from start to finish.
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