Everyone Expected the Widow to Wed the Banker—Then a Rancher Proposed 10 Times — A Funny Love Story

Every night, after she locked the green door of her little hat shop, Adelaide Pryor climbed the stairs to her two rooms, lit one lamp, and added up how much of her life she still owed for another man's mistake. Her husband had been dead for two years. He had left her no house, no land, and no children. He had left her a debt. Eighteen hundred dollars, to the bank in Cedar Bend, Nebraska, and to the one man in that town who never raised his voice, because he never had to. His name was Lucius Fenwick, and he had the cleanest hands in the state. Once a month, he came into her shop, bought a pair of gloves he did not need, and talked to her about books. He never once mentioned the money. He didn't have to. Everyone in Cedar Bend knew that sooner or later, the widow Pryor would marry him. Adelaide knew it too. She was thirty-seven years old, and she was tired, and a sensible woman does what she has to do. And then, in the spring of 1889, a man rode into her life who had never once been accused of being sensible. This is an original work of fiction. The town of Cedar Bend and all characters are fictional. #LoveStory #HistoricalFiction #Storytelling #HistoricalRomance #WesternRomance #FrontierRomance #WidowStory #StrongWomen #SecondChance #Nebraska #Audiobook #StoriesOfOriginalLives