Beneath the Texas Sky — Jodi Thomas

BITTERSWEET CHOICES

The years following the Civil War were difficult ones for Texas...and for beautiful Bethanie Lane. When fate took the man she loved from her, she was forced to choose between her cherished memories of the past and her steely determination to give her unborn child a future. But deep in her heart, she held on to the dreams of her one true desire, bequeathing to her daughter Mariah a blazing faith in destiny and hope.

TENDER LONGINGS
Raven-haired Mariah had been taught to face life with strength and pride. But she had a great deal to learn about the rewards of compromise. It would take a special kind of man to tempt her to taste the sweetness of surrender. And, like her mother before her, Mariah would blossom under the searing western sun, and find her heart's desire Beneath the Texas Sky