Love Is a New World — Helen Sharp

When Elizabeth Carleton met Jake Bartlett, Rolfe Sumner's farm-hand, her life changed forever. Despite her thinking him handsome, he was still a hired man. But in sleepy Washington, Vermont, Elizabeth found herself loving him, agreeing to marry him and becoming the owner of Sumner farm. And when she discovered Jake's dark secret, she fought to win him back from the edge of habitual bleakness - and won. For Liz, the summer she met Jake was the summer that changed her forever.