title: The Sweetest of Debts
author: Bretton, Barbara
description: Accepting his love, could she repay the sweetest of debts?
  
  Lainie Randall was shocked by Rita's engagement. Not that Ethan Ward wasn't a nice man, but surely her aunt knew that marriage only hurt people -- hadn't Lainie spent a year in Rita's Gettysburg home recuperating? Even now the thought of marriage frightened her.
  
  Matthew Ward was delighted by his father's engagement but he understood Lainie's feelings. Matt too knew emotional injuries, psychic scars. Unlike Lainie, Matt believed that love could heal, restore, renew. And suddenly it became extremely important for him to prove it -- both for Lainie's sake and his own....