The third book in the trilogy about the romance of Lucinda Harmon and Jason McCall. They learn many lessons, through strife, sorrow, joy, grief and a love that beckons their hearts.
This final book, The Beckoning Hills, beginsd at the end of Lucinda's Mountain and finishes the story of these two people, who according to Jason, met by chance, but to Lincinda, were predestined to meet. Lucinda finds that many hard lessons are learned from adversity, but she holds on to her faith to survive and overcome her trials. She becomes more firmly entrenched in the adage that one should, "Do everything you can to help a situation and then leave the rest to God."
Jason also has much adversity and many challenges, culturally and politically , and gradually comes to rely on the faith and dependency in a higher power to guide his life. Until his meeting with Aunt Sarie Lester and Lucinda Harmon, thoughts of being guided by a higher power had never entered his mind.
Even though they both moved away the incessant memories and recurring dreams of the hills and their beckoning calls draws them inexorably back to the halcyon time and place where life and love were in full bloom.
Professional Reviews
Ann B. Rosss
While deftly contrasting the mountain dialect of some characters with that of others exposed to city life, the author, Adda Leah Davis, emphasizes teh encroachment of outside influences on the heritage of Appalachia in this, her las book in a trilogy. the tale begins with Lucinda's Mountain, continues in Jason's Journey and culminates in The Beckoning Hills. this book tells the gripping story of how a woman's strength, perseverance, and faith carry her through an abusive marriage into redemptive love
Dr. Jerry Beasley
"I marvel at Adda Leah Davis's ability to carry a story almost solely through the dialogue of her principal characters. Their language if genuine and varies sensitively across the characters and generations. While keeping her characterization authentic, in this book, The Beckoning Hills, Ms. Davis describes the heartbreak that sometimes follows the clash of innocent mountain ways with the impersonal and suffocatin regimen of industrial cities. Retreat to the mountains of West Virginia offered a change of skies and the promise of better days, but did not solve the problems inherent in a flawed relationship. Unhappily married, Lucinda consoled herself in ambitious derams for her promising son and fantasies of a dashing doctor who struck hr fancy when she was a teenager. Ultimately, simple faith in a personal God provides the common ground on which unlikely characters meet and begin to fashion a future that may prompt Ms. Davis to pen a sequel."
Professor Greg Horn
Enjoyable, compelling, and superbly entertaining. Mrs. Davis has once again given us a book that combines her gift for local color with her genius for creating appealing characters. Her people are ones we can't help but want to know and spend time with. The Beckoning Hills will not only satisfy Davis's loyal fans-- but will create many new ones.
