num_pages: 298
description: Pursued by an unwelcome suitor banker's daughter Penny Castlerock will do anything to escape town and Mr. Abbott's advances  even visit her grandfather's homestead for an undetermined amount of time. Out of her element she must rely on neighbor Jonas White and his brood of adopted children. Scandal chased Jonas out of Philadelphia five years ago. A scandal that socialite Miss Castlerock knows about. Since then Jonas has kept to himself worked his homestead and focused on raising his seven adopted boys and his daughter. The last thing he needs is to be reminded of the past and the young woman he once fancied  especially when she's so far out of his sphere... As circumstances force the two to work together their tentative friendship blossoms into something more. But can two people from such disparate backgrounds find true love with each other?
language: English
title: The Homesteader's Sweetheart
publisher: Lacy Williams Books LLC