Deborah Schneider

Say You Love Me Deborah Schneider

He needs her, he wants 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. 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 woman, strong, upstanding and of the best character-and most importantly, she's available. 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 heart was broken once, and it's clear he struggles to trust her and admit how he really feels. This is a sweet and wholesome historical romance from an award-winning author.