The Christmas Courtship
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For some reason, Hank’s senseless chatter upset him today. It had never bothered him before. Martin usually had a quiet heart. But somehow, meeting Julia Rose had unsettled him more than he’d realized.
He’d recently purchased sixty-five acres of fine farmland just two miles outside of town. In the spring, he planned to build a barn and raise horses and a familye of his own. But just one problem: he had no wife. No one to build a house for. No one to love and dote on the way he longed to do. No reason to work so hard for the land he’d just acquired. And no one to love him in return.
But he was determined to change all of that. And soon.
Copyright © 2019 by Lora Lee Bale
ISBN-13: 9781488043161
The Christmas Courtship
Copyright © 2019 by Emma Miller
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