num_pages: 276
description: Marrying Maddie, a woman who works in a brothel in order to survive, widower Charles Lawson hopes to provide his three children with a loving mother until his terminal illness causes him to arrange a match between Maddie and his brother. Original.
language: English
title: Parting Gifts
titlecomplete: Parting Gifts
characters: Jesse Lawson, Maddie Sherwood, Charles Lawson
genres: Western Historical Romance, Fiction, Family, M F Romance, Historical Romance, Historical, Historical Fiction, Romance, Westerns, Western Romance
ratings_count: 1093
places: Texas
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: RITA Award by Romance Writers of America
category: Historical Romance, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award (RT Award)
category: Americana Historical Romance
publisher: Diamond Books