ASIN: B00KCZETIM
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 213
Laura Cartwright, daughter of a wealthy mercantile owner in Hartford, is determined never to marry – and is equally determined never to tell her parents why. But when tragedy befalls her family in April of 1850 and shakes her existing world to pieces, her mother and beloved maid decide that the best thing for eighteen-year-old Laura is to find a husband somewhere out West where gossip and rumors cannot follow her – and where she will have a better chance of being taken care of financially.Benjamin Johnson, a twenty-eight-year-old widower with three young children, cannot manage his central Missouri farm and take care of his household alone. But when his neighbor and community midwife suggests he remarry, he struggles with the idea. He is still deeply in love with his deceased wife, who died only a few months earlier. Reason and necessity triumph over his emotions, however, and he ends ...
