All in Good Time - Maureen Lang

 I enjoyed reading All in Good Time.  The characters were very different from me, however, as humans we are all so alike.  I liked the main character, Dessa.  She wanted to help others as she had been helped.  She knew what the life of those less fortunate was.  Yet Dessa was afraid that if anyone knew her past, she wouldn't be accepted.  She tried so hard to be what she viewed as the perfect example of a Christian; Sophie Pierson, her deceased mentor.  She was so caught up in trying to earn what she already had - Christ's love and acceptance for who she was.  Enter Henry who has the same fear, for very different reasons, with very different responses.  Henry made himself rich, by robbing the Wells Fargo coach.  Though he had paid it all back he constantly lived in fear that if anyone knew the past, he would be ruined.  So Henry became a cold, hard, lonely man.  Through divine design Dessa and Henry are thrown together.  Her to help rescue the "ladies of the night" through building Pierson House. Him to "salvage" his investment in Pierson House.  Lang wove the faith of Dessa and Henry's uncle in such a way that they were genuine.  The truth of everything became known in good time, changing and challenging the hearts of the characters and the readers.