The debut novelette, book 1 of a trilogy, revolving around the lives of three sisters of Guthrie who face the travails of life with an incomparable zest that set them apart. The Poet’s Lover is a story about the youngest of the sisters, Katherine Blake, who at the age of twenty-five, set her sights on the dashing poet, James Madison, a known rake who was rumored to have a dark side. Instead of scaring her away, Katherine embraced the challenge and set out to capture his heart. She had been dreaming about the poet who inhabited the library once a week to lure the women of Guthrie there with his evocative words. James Madison took but a second to agree to accepting the innocent looking beauty's request for private lessons . . . poetry lessons. He had a dominant nature and the lessons she would learn would change her forever Would Katherine submit to his demands that if ever discovered, could shatter her reputation?