Courting Miss Hattie
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 Irresistable 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.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.