Hill Country Courtship

By Laurie Kingery

Description:

Maude Harkey is resigned to a loveless life until a baby is born—and orphaned—at her boarding house home. She'll never be a wife… but she can still be a mother. Yet a boarding house is no place for a newborn. Enter Jonas MacLaren—a handsome, exasperating rancher with an offer too good to refuse.

Jonas can handle running a ranch—but handling his cantankerous mother is another matter. Maude matches his mother's stubbornness so she'll be a perfect live-in companion. But she's there for his mother, not for him. He'll just have to keep his wounded heart closed to her beauty, her humor, her warmth and strength—and her irresistibly adorable baby.

Book Takeaway:

We should never give up, even when our happy endings come disguised as trials

Why the author wrote this book:

I wanted to pay tribute to a member of my family, my Aunt Maude, who like the heroine had red hair and a feisty spirit. I also wanted to give Maude Harkey, a woman in my Brides of Simpson Creek series who had known much loss and heartache, her own happy ending