It took me a long time to read this…..not really one I liked. It was clean but Elsie was such a dunce. She seemed caring and forgiving but when she really needed to be she was just as spoiled as everyone else.

Love her tenacity and approach to life. Like who she ends up with. A great ending too.

A sort of rags to great life story. I enjoyed the characters and their approach to life. Really appreciated that the 'loose ends' were nicely resolved by the end of the book. Wish for more books like this. Really made my day.

Amelia is the daughter of influential southern politician who travels a lot with his second wife (Amelia's step-mother from hell) so Amelia has to stay home to care for her 5 year old step-brother. She is tired of being an unpaid nanny and forced to deal with running the household (including pawning her mother's jewelry to pay for the staff's wages when daddy dearest failed to provide a method to pay his staff while he is on a trip). So she answers an advertisement in the paper from the sheriff of a small town in Montana.

This was my second Karla Gracey book and I really enjoyed seeing Amelia and the Sheriff come together and I liked that Amelia stood up to her father and step-mother while also protecting her brother. The sheriff is British and has quite the back story for a short book, but it works in developing an intimacy between him and Amelia.