Courting Miss Hattie: A Novel

The news spread like brush fire through the whole county when widower Ancil Drayton announced his intention to start courting Miss Hattie Colfax. She was certainly spirited and delightfully sweet natured and shed managed to run her family farm almost single-handedly. But wasnt a twenty-nine-year-old lady farmer too old to catch a husband?. An Irresistable Suitor.. All his life handsome black-haired Reed Tyler had worked Miss Hatties farm--and dreamed of one day settling down on his own piece of land with the pretty young woman hed sworn to marry. Hattie was someone he could tell his hopes and troubles to--someone he looked on as a sister. So he thought until the idea of Ancil Drayton calling on her made him seethe. Until the night a brotherly peck became a scorching kiss... and Reed knew nothing would bank the blaze--and that his best friend was the only woman he would ever love.