Say You Love Me

He needs her, he admires her, but will he ever say the words she longs to hear? Lucy O'Malley is content with her life in Ghost Horse Gulch. She's established a successful baking business and more miners line up every week to buy her pies and sourdough bread. She's lonely, but she's taking care of her father. Mining engineer, Nathaniel Carrington, is one of her best customers and she's delighted he lingers at her shop several times each week to enjoy a cup of coffee and some conversation. But Lucy knows the handsome, educated man could never be interested in courting a woman like her, with the rough manners that came from living in frontier towns and on mining claims all her life. Nathaniel Carrington has a problem. Actually-three of them. His children have been living in Colorado with his mother-in-law, but she's ill and he's forced to bring the children to Montana to live with him. He needs someone to care for them, and Lucille O'Malley seems to be the best candidate. She's a fine, upstanding Christian woman, and he cares for her. Lucy accepts a proposal from Nathaniel for a marriage in name only, but when the children arrive, she questions her ability to deal with them and realizes how challenging becoming a wife and mother would be for her. She also realizes she's fallen in love with Nathaniel. Yet she knows his first wife broke his heart and he doesn't trust in love. Nathan struggles to trust Lucy and admit how he really feels about her. When a tragedy befalls his small family, he discovers there's one person he can count on. Will it be too late to finally say the words she needs to hear? This clean & wholesome Western romance is perfect for those who enjoy love and laughter books about found families.