title: Tempered by Fire
author: Goldrick, Emma
description: Faith and Hope led them into each other's arms
  
  Becky Latimore's little sisters, Faith and Hope, thought it was high time she got married. Doctor or not, she was already twenty-seven years old!
  
  So they "checked out" Jake Meadows, their new--and only--neighbor. He was a lot like their daddy, they decided, and that was good enough for them.
  
  But all Becky wanted was a summer of peace and quiet in New England's Berkshire Hills. And there was no peace with the infuriating, fascinating Jake Meadows around.. . .
  
  Hero: Jake Meadows
  Heroine: Becky Latimore