Annabelle could have prevented her first pregnancy from happening if she had taken the time to try, but she didn’t nor did she want to. What could she say was her excuse now…and with the same man? Unwed mother, Annabelle Jordan, because of so many unwise decisions, faces one set of trials after another. Now, in the middle of another setback she once again brought on herself—this time the secret delivery of her second illegitimate child, Annabelle's convinced for the protection of her physically-impaired girls, she must keep both hidden as long as possible. Unless, God's in the business of providing miracles to backslidden women like her, and Annabelle hardly believes in that anymore, she decides to makes one more bad decision. She must find away to force a marriage with the girls' father. After all, he's the one who broke the vows he made to her years earlier. For the sake of her girls, even a marriage of obligation with a man she can no longer stand has to be better than doing nothing…isn't it?

An unwed mother who disregards her childhood faith and gives up her innocence early is about to make a greater mistake that could change her life forever.When Annabelle Jordan's secrets are discovered by an unforgiving church community, she and her daughters are booted from town. Now without home or future for her growing family, Annabelle, no longer young nor ready to rekindle a once-cherished faith—is convinced her only hope is to find the girls' father and force the marriage he pledged but later abandoned, or raise her daughters alone which offers no guarantee of security. But when the irresistibly handsome man of faith, Major Carlton Radcliffe, pledged to a family of his own, crosses Annabelle's path, he also steals her heart.To offer her daughters the future they so desperately need, Annebelle must make the right choice. She could vow never to marry a gain and raise her girls alone providing them with no respectable future; she could continue her journey to the one who rejected her twice already; or she could risk ruining the reputation of the one man who now occupies her heart. What other choice does she have?

Geraldine Jordan's lived all her life with an unpleasant disability. She learns the meaning of painful rejection early. Any probability of obtaining a respectable suitor one day to someone like Alistair McKenna the man of her lifetime dreams is slim to none. When Geraldine is passed off to live with controlling-zealot Uncle Henry, she grows weary of waiting for that impossible dream—until a treasured aunt arranges a potential marriage with esteemed Chicago banker, in search of a wife and mother for his young ward. The disgruntled Uncle Henry whose always believed his niece unsuitable for any man of status, quickly sets out to block the betrothal by demoting Geraldine to status of a common servant, hiring her off to a family in need of a governess. Will the shattered Geraldine be forced to abandon all hope when she learns her prospective groom-to-be was none other than her life-long love, Alistair McKenna? Show More Show Less

Raised by an unstable and controlling guardian, an over-protective brother, and a boat-captain grandfather, Collette Moreau's upbringing has hardly been conventional. Seeking a more refined future, she sets her hopes on marriage to an English Baron's nephew—a choice any woman would make. When the wedding gets postponed, Collette decides to visit an ailing uncle and learns he's not only been keeping family secrets, he highly disapproves of her fiancé. He's already engaged the services of the passionate Christian Jordan—suspected womanizer. Uncle's plan is to induce Collette away from her betrothed toward Mr. Jordan, or, if necessary, toward Christian's pious and meddling brother, the community parson. But should Collette comply with this preposterous whim of some distant kin? What sensible woman would agree to be wooed by a possible Romeo or religious zealot when she's about to wed Baron Kirkland Dewey's distinguished nephew?