A Gentle Calling (The Cambridge Chronicles, Bk 1)

CatherinePerronet's world is shaken when she learns Charles Wesley is engaged to marryanother. After all, Catherine's initials were on the list John Wesley gave tohis brother naming acceptable matrimonial candidates. And that's not all that's wrong in Catherine'sworld. As teacher at a Methodist Society school in London, she sees her brotherbeaten while preaching in the open air, her favorite pupil forced to leaveschool because of his family's poverty, and a prisoner receive his deathsentence in Newgate Prison. Catherine undertakes the joys and hardships of acircuit-ride preaching tour to Canterbury where a French invasion threatensthen must face the terrors of the Great London Earthquake before coming to anunderstanding of the gentle calling God has for her.