A Dry Creek Courtship

By Janet Tronstad

Charley Nelson wants a change. He wants more than just breakfast and banter with longtime friend Edith Hargrove. Charley wants, well...he wants romance. Somehow, Mrs. Hargrove has gotten under his skin and into his heart. But the no–nonsense widow misunderstands when he confesses he'd like to settle down. How can he convince a woman set in her ways that change is good––especially if it means a future with him?

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Australia
• Release date: Sep 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9781488733994

Janet Tronstad

Janet Tronstad grew up on her family’s farm in central Montana and now lives in Pasadena, California where she is always at work on her next book. She has written over thirty books, many of them set in the fictitious town of Dry Creek, Montana where the men spend the winters gathered around the potbellied stove in the hardware store and the women make jelly in the fall.

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