Beulah
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Author
Zina Abbott
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Beulah Beatrice “Be-Be” Connor, who is approaching the age of thirty, gave up on marriage after the second man who had courted her left and never returned. Unlike the two maiden great-aunts, after whom she was named, she did not have an inheritance to fall back on. She worked almost half her life for her own support. When the café job in Wichita, Kansas, disappeared as the Panic of 1893 continued, she considered the job she landed at a new girls’ academy in nearby New Ponca, Oklahoma Territory, to be a Godsend.
Daniel Burdock had once been married. After both his wife and baby died during childbirth, he gave up on marriage. He now focuses on making improvements to his homestead claim. He accepts his carpenter brother’s offer to attend his construction mathematics class on mitering corners, figuring angles for roof trusses, and other geometry and trigonometry skills needed for building.
Much to his surprise, the hired help for his sister-in-law’s girls’ academy also attends. Why does it surprise him that Marigold Burdock agreed to teach Miss Connor how to make quilts on the condition she attend the construction class? The pretext is that knowledge of how to figure triangles and other geometric shapes so they fit together is good preparation for designing quilt blocks.
Construction mathematics for quilting? Honestly? Although he soon realizes those skills could be helpful for piecing quilts, Daniel begins to suspect there is more afoot than feet, inches, and angles. If he is not careful, he and Be-Be might end up stitched and bound together like a Christmas quilt.
