How long does it take to read Stealing the Preacher?
Stealing the Preacher by Karen Witemeyer takes about 6 hours 22 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 22 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2013. 347 pages, about 95,425 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 36 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 22 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 59 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
On his way to interview for a position at a church in the Piney Woods of Texas, Crockett Archer can scarcely believe it when he's forced off the train by a retired outlaw and presented to the man's daughter as the minister she requested for her birthday. Worried this unfortunate detour will ruin his chances of finally serving a congregation of his own, Crockett is determined to escape. But when he finally gets away, he's haunted by the memory of the young woman he left behind--a woman whose dreams now hinge on him. For months, Joanna Robbins prayed for a preacher. A man to breathe life back into the abandoned church at the heart of her community. A man to assist her in fulfilling a promise to her dying mother. A man to help her discover answers to the questions that have been on her heart for so long. But just when it seems God has answered her prayers, it turns out the parson is there against his will and has dreams of his own calling him elsewhere. Is there any way she can convince Crockett to stay in her little backwoods community? And does the attraction between them have any chance of blossoming when Joanna's outlaw father is dead set against his daughter courting a preacher?
Subjects: Fiction, Preachers, Kidnapping, History, Romance, Outlaws
