The Lady's Mine

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Nabor Aday verbally abuses his wife, Abbie. How does she handle it? How do others respond when they observe this couple’s interactions? Do you think people today are more or less likely to speak up when they see abuse? What resources are available today for those in abusive situations? We’ve been approached by different companies…I’ve actually had options over the years, but they never really understood Michael in the script. So I thought, “Okay, I’m going to just write a script and show them what I’m looking for.” So I studied Final Draft, I put it together, and they ended up taking that script. Then I worked with DJ because he could restructure things for the screen…we worked on scenes together…So that was a lot of fun working with him, and then finding the right people to play the role.

I was immediately drawn to Kathryn Walsh and her situation in 1875. She was banished to Calvada mining town by her stepfather. Her mother and father didn’t know what to do with her outspoken, unladylike ways. She was there to claim her inheritance, which turned out to not be much of anything. Josh Olds: So I would be absolutely remiss if I did not ask you about the upcoming Redeeming Love movie. What has that journey been like? Agape love has rippling effects in The Lady’s Mine, an entertaining romance novel in which a forward-thinking woman and a former rogue work to energize a boom town. The male lead was such an enigma and you started hating him in the beginning but then you started seeing him grow and mature and you couldn’t help but fall for him , too.Also, I’d like to say that even though I’ve read some of her books I don’t completely agree with everything she writes. There’s stuff I don’t like reading but I won’t elaborate on that right now. Kathryn looked to God for help and transformation. There was no sex or bad language. Overall, I'd highly recommend this enjoyable historical. There is the community aspect of what goes into making a mining boom-town prosper and survive during this harsh and unpredictable time period and location. It’s about how one person can impact an entire community for the better or the worse. We filmed in South Africa and it actually finished 24 hours ahead of the COVID shutdown worldwide. And then they were able to finish the entire film in private studios. So it’s been ready for a year now just waiting for the theaters to open up. During that time, Universal Studios—they wanted to be the ones that were distributing it. So, it’s become a Universal Studios movie, which will open it up to theaters up all over the country and in other countries, too. That’s all been God doing all that. It’s just amazing. The Book | The Lady’s Mine Yes, because the setting is the old west we have brothels and drunk people and stuff, but nothing crazy at all in my opinion.

Kathryn refused to marry because she had seen so many women lose their rights, their property, their voice when they became someone’s wife. I thought Rivers did a good job of promoting proper women’s rights while still maintaining the benefits and goodness of marriage and upholding the high value the Bible attributes to women. Normally (at least in the books I’ve read) her stories seem to be very sexually oriented. And what I mean is that the Main character is somehow involved in prostitution/sexual interaction/etc. Given the nature of those stories I understand the choice.I think what bothered me the most was that the faith was not a prominent aspect of the story. When I read a Rivers book, I go into it expecting faith and for that to be a large portion of the plot, but it was more subtle in this than I would've preferred. In the author’s notes of The Lady’s Mine, Francine Rivers explains that she explored the question, “Can one person impact an entire community?” Being set in Calvada, California, an 1870’s mining town replete with greed, lust, and lawlessness, the novel probes the many ways an individual affects his or her community.

Sidenote: I guess if I had a criticism for this book it would be that she kept using ‘fillip’ when she said things like Kathryn’s heart did a ‘fillip.’ The actual definition of this word is appropriate for how she used it but I feel like she should have just said ‘flip.’ I felt like I was hiccuping when I read it in my head.] This was a hard book to put down! I finished it in a little over 24 hours and I even woke up once in the middle of the night to read a chapter. Josh Olds: This historical timeframe seems to be a favorite of yours. Why do you find yourself drawn to that time period?This pains me to grade a Francine Rivers book this low, yet I struggled quite a bit with this story as a whole. It was quite good in the end, but the journey to get there was bumpy for me.