An Engagement: A New Pioneers Short Story: The New Pioneers, #3

By Deborah Nam-Krane

Annabelle Hendrickson always knew Alex Sheldon couldn't be trusted, but even she couldn't have guessed how far he was willing to go to get what he wanted.

No one was as decent as her brother Jim, but Stephen Abbot had a kind soul behind his mischief. She could accept his reprobate father- he'd be dead soon anyway- but she would never accept his longtime friendship with Alex, her father Gerald's ambitious employee. Annabelle knew it was just a matter of time before he stepped on someone she cared about.

What a pity she didn't realize who that person would be- and who was going to give him the opportunity.

An Engagement is Book 2.5 in The New Pioneers series. What happened to Michael Abbot and Richard Hendrickson's parents in 1980 is going to affect everyone three decades later.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Deborah Nam-Krane
• Release date: Mar 8, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311166722

Deborah Nam-Krane

Deborah Nam-Krane is a Boston-based writer who has been telling stories in one way or another since she could talk. In addition to writing romance/chick lit/women's fiction, she's also intensely interested in education, history, economics, policy and media literacy- that is, when her four children (two of whom are homeschooled) allow her to be.

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An Engagement: A New Pioneers Short Story

Book 2.5 of The New Pioneers

by Deborah Nam-Krane

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

SPOILER ALERT

CAST OF CHARACTERS

DEDICATION

THE ENGAGEMENT OF ANNABELLE HENDRICKSON AND STEPHEN ABBOT

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

SPOILER ALERT

This is Book 2.5 of The New Pioneers series. This story takes place in 1980, before the main characters of The New Pioneers were born, but the events in this short story will reverberate into the third full installment, The China Doll, when Jessie, the youngest of my characters, comes into adulthood.

Please don't read this until you've read Book Two, The Family You Choose. Otherwise, be spoiled at your own peril!

CAST OF CHARACTERS

Annabelle Hendrickson—Socialite daughter of