aw... this is a very nice Christian romance. I wonder, if you put it in the romance section, would you get more reviews??

by the way, though, if Rebekah's family were Spanish, c. 1850, they would have raised her as a Roman Catholic, unless they were expelled from Spain for developing Protestant leanings(which would have been unlikely... Protestantism never really took root in Spain). Perhaps you would want to go into how the Sanchez' family's new faith in America separated them from their fellow Spaniards, and how, most likely, they would not have been accepted by their fellow Americans for their Catholic faith, which was perceived as a foreign import at that time. Also, too, the kind of Catholicism that Rebekah's family would have experienced, c. 1850, would have been very works-directed (no meat on Fridays, inside or outside Lent, emphasis on the rosary and the blessed Mother, lots of processions, etc.) which would have made a transition to American Protestantism very jarring - and also make it a rejection of their Spanish heritage, which had become inextricably bound with Roman Catholicism by that point.

Maybe a way of solving this problem would be to have Rebekah's adopted family be American, and have her raised by a Spanish or Mexican nanny. Or take out the Spanish all together.