num_pages: 292
description: The news spread like brush fire through the whole county when widower Ancil Drayton announced his intention to start courting Miss Hattie Colfax. She was certainly spirited and delightfully sweet natured, and she'd managed to run her family farm almost single-handedly. But wasn't a twenty-nine-year-old lady farmer too old to catch a husband?An Irresistible Suitor.All his life handsome, black-haired Reed Tyler had worked Miss Hattie's farm--and dreamed of one day settling down on his own piece of land with the pretty young woman he'd sworn to marry. Hattie was someone he could tell his hopes and troubles to--someone he looked on as a sister. So he thought, until the idea of Ancil Drayton calling on her made him seethe. Until the night a brotherly peck became a scorching kiss... and Reed knew nothing would bank the blaze--and that his best friend was the only woman he would ever love.From the Paperback edition.
language: English
title: Courting Miss Hattie
titlecomplete: Courting Miss Hattie
characters: Hattie Colfax, Reed Tyler
genres: Western Historical Romance, Fiction, Historical Romance, Historical, Historical Fiction, Americana, Romance, Adult, Westerns, Western Romance
ratings_count: 2408
places: Arkansas
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: RITA Award by Romance Writers of America
category: Best Single Title Historical
publisher: Random House Publishing Group