Mahrenda's Mission — Sally Campbell Repass

Mahrenda Leigh Stone was looking forward to the party her parents were throwing in her honor. Friends and family gathered to help her celebrate her eighteenth birthday. Her parents, River and Willow Stone, invited seven, young, single men in hopes that Mahrenda would find the man she wanted to marry. However, Mahrenda had other plans. Her dream was to build an orphanage. She wanted to go to college to learn how to operate the business. She had no room in her life for a man right now. Therefore, she met the young men and smiled as they passed through the line. The only one she saw that she was the least bit interested in, didn't come through the line. That was more of a challenge for her. She suddenly developed a pretend headache and left the party, as she saw the stranger leave the room. She yelled as he started to ride away on his horse. He stopped his horse and talked briefly with her. Marshal Ty Gordon had never seen such a beautiful girl. After a few words, he rode away, knowing that he would carry her in his heart forever.Mahrenda went off to college where she met Cooper Robinson. Would he capture her heart or would Marshal Ty Gordon have a chance with her?The beautiful Serena Rose emerges and creates havoc in Mahrenda's life when she realizes that she is about to lose Ty forever. What will she do? Her college friend and partner at the orphanage, Jazzy O'Brian, offers advice to Mahrenda. Will she listen to Jazzy and her heart or will she lose the only man she has ever loved? Does she really want to be an old spinster with a squeaky voice as Jazzy predicts? Or will she be willing to compromise to be with the man she loves?