He Sent for a Cook, Not a Bride—When She Arrived With a Baby on Her Hip, He Couldn’t Turn Her Away

Part 3 Nora did not sleep that night. The lamp burned low on the kitchen table, its flame wavering whenever the spring wind slipped under…

Part 3 The Elkhorn Ranch felt too big without Yates Sloan in it. Olivia had thought the house large when she first arrived, but with…

Part 3 Colter did not ride straight to Lydia after Founder’s Day. He wanted to. That was the part that bothered him. Colter Thorne trusted…

Part 3 The fire burned low by the Bitterroot, its last red coals breathing beneath gray ash. Clara sat with Silas’s coat around her shoulders…

Part 3 Winter settled hard over Caleb Hartley’s ranch, and with it came a kind of closeness none of them named. The snow came in…

Part 3 The first frost came in late September, a hard white skin over the grass before dawn, and with it came the feeling that…