Hill Country Courtship

A Baby of Her Own Maude Harkey is resigned to a loveless life until a baby is born--and orphaned--at her boardinghouse home. She'll never be a wife...but she can still be a mother. Yet a boardinghouse 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. Brides of Simpson Creek: Small-town Texas spinsters find love with mail-order grooms!