“ You wouldn't have to confront such people in broad daylight were it not for them renting my hall . Who allowed them to do so ? ” “ Now , Mr. Henry Darman , you know very well that Papa did it . He handles the rentals on the town hall ...
I have a letter for Charlotte Warnick - my friend . Can you give it to her please when she stops by Thornhill ? We had a wager . ” “ A wager ? Over what ? Ladies don't wager . ” Her grandmother was looking on , half shocked .
A wager on the first snowfall . And poachers . And more poachers . Nate ought to have cared , but he was thinking instead of the herd of youngsters that wreaked havoc inside his house , and of the schoolmarm — her trusting eyes ...
I wager he's weathering this out in some town lady's storm shelter , or at least in a ditch out on the ranch . ” “ The Lazy Y has got a lot of ditches . ” “ Dry ones , too , ” she pointed out . “ The heat's left them dry .
More than one former suitor of Miss Eden's , glumly watching the dangerous earl obviously delight and enchant her with apparently little effort , longed wistfully for the cachet of a mysterious and / or wicked past .
Journeying to Idaho to wed a stranger and tend to her brother's apple orchards, Elizabeth at first despises Zack, her unruly new husband, but soon grows to love his restless nature. Original.
A collection of romantic short stories celebrates summer love with contributions by Pamela Morsi, Jean Anne Caldwell, Ann Carberry, and Karen Lockwood. Reissue.
When an Irish seamstress sets up shop in the lumber town of Bunyan, Michigan, she inadvertently threatens the pride--and the heart--of the town's rich mill owner. Original.