num_pages: 342
description: **Winner - 2016 Imadjinn Award for Best Romance!**After losing her husband and only child to the ravages of the Civil War twenty-five-year-old Portia McAllister is drowning in grief. When she sees an ad for a live-in tutor in another town she leaves everything behind in hopes of making a fresh start. But as a Confederate widow in a Union household she is met with resentment from her new charge and her employer war veteran Beau Stanford. Despite their differences she and Beau find common ground and the stirrings of a second chance at loveuntil his late wifes cousin Lydia arrives with her sights set on him. Burdened with a farm on the brink of bankruptcy Beau is tempted by Lydias hefty dowry though Portia has captured his heart. In another time and another place his choice would be easy. But love seems impossible amid the simmering chaos of Reconstruction that could boil over at any moment into an all-out battle for survival. Will Beau and Portia find their way into each others arms or will they be swept away by raging forces beyond their control?Award Winning Romance!Finish the Damn Book Contest (Chesapeake Romance Writers) - 2nd place Historical CategoryDixie Kane Memorial Contest (Southern Louisiana RWA Chapter) - 3rd place Historical CategoryHeart of the West Contest (Utah Chapter Romance Writers) - 4th place Historical Category
language: English
title: A Time for Everything
publisher: EsKape Press