I thought this book was really well written though there were a few things that I had a problem with. One, the characters of Frank and Ephaim didn't really seem that consistant to me. I never knew exactly what they wanted and what they were up to. Other people's reactions to them seemed to indica...
I have read Ellen O'Connell before and was glad to see that this was much smoother and better polished than her first book. The first half was a bit arduous to get through as the hero and the heroine don't talk to each other at all. Well, she talks to him and he refuses to talk back. Such extre...
Mabel would change her mind about Caleb if she saw this. Next time the Carburys visited.... As if her thoughts conjured him up, Caleb charged into the yard astride Stonewall, Jeb following loose, and Early bringing up the rear. “Norah!” He saw her running toward him, met her halfway, and scooped ...
Instead he led her on a leisurely tour of the few shops in the town. “I don’t see a jewelry shop,” he said. “I’ll buy you a ring as soon as we get some place that has one.” “Please don’t do that. I don’t want a ring.” “You wanted one enough to offer up Petty’s yesterday.” They were in the town’s ...
Introducing herself and explaining she had come on behalf of the paper became easier, if not easy. Observing Trey’s approach when she accompanied him to a town council meeting and a retirement dinner at the flour mill helped, although his approach was too — male. Her first test as the paper’s soc...