Publisher's Synopsis
WINTER WOMAN Life on the frontier is hard. It's even harder without a woman to keep house, cook, help with the chores and provide "creature comforts." The ladies use the shortage of females in the territory to their advantage and hire out to the highest bidder for the winter. Sadie, orphaned and alone at nineteen, faces two dilemmas. The lecherous man on the next farm and losing her farm if she can't pay the bank come spring. There's only one way for a woman to earn money in these parts, she'll have to become a winter woman. THE SONGS OF LOVE A tryst in the back of a pickup turns into an off again and off again romance. He requests love songs for her on the radio. She plays him a different tune after he steps out with her sister. When two sisters get involved with two brothers and one sister gives birth, they all have reasons to hide the truth. Which sister is the baby's mother and which brother is the child's father? Looks can deceive, and they do, as Moses and Ruby try to build a relationship out of distrust and deceit to dance to the same music. LESSOR OF TWO EVILS He had to marry her. She'd asked him nicely and offered him money, to boot. No gentleman could refuse such a request from a comely lady in so much distress. How could they consummate the marriage without sex? They had to convince their pursuers that the deed was done. Otherwise she'd be dragged home to marry the horrible Mr. Musgrove. She hadn't mentioned she'd already been promised to another man when she bartered with him to marry her.
