Jaded and cynical, Ben found it hard to trust, though Lorabeth’s sweetness soothed his battered soul and taught him joy. And when Benjamin Chaney visited, she felt the stirrings of her first crush. Lorabeth reveled in her newfound freedom.

Her chance of escape came when she took a job as housekeeper to a boisterous family. Lorabeth Holdridge longed for life and experience! Cloistered by her strict father, her world was confined to chores and prayer. But if only Sophie could learn to trust again, she might find this lawman would make her new life complete.… Upright and honorable, the town’s marshal deserved better than a woman with a tainted past. Now all Sophie wanted was to be left alone to build a new life-one that was honest and decent, based on truth, not trickery.Ĭlay Connor was the last man she should care about. Kidnapped as a child, sold to a con man, she’d fast learned how to sweet-talk her way out of trouble. But he could also see a woman with a heart big enough to love his infant son as though she were his mother, and big enough to teach Caleb himself how to love again.Ĭurrently unavailable in print or Kindle, except for the Blogger Bundle from Amazon Even if his offer was the answer to her prayers, a man as decent and kind as Caleb didn’t deserve a woman whose past was a lie.Ĭaleb Chaney could see that Ellie was a woman with a troubled soul. People like Elli Parrish did not get proposals of marriage from someone like Dr.

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