The Reluctant Bride — Georgia Grace

Can love bloom when everything seems impossible?

Left without close family after her preacher father is killed in the Civil War, Ellie Carter accepts an offer of marriage from a man thousands of miles away.

When she meets the man she has promised to marry, she is so disappointed that she refuses, outright. With no way to get back to the East, she has to settle for a job as a shop girl. Her potential husband, Martin Black, is at first accepting of her decision, and then angry at her continued refusals. Surrounded by gossip, and struggling to come to turns with her future, Ellie has to ask herself whether she ever wants to marry at all.

Hero: Martin Black
Heroine: Ellie Carter