Maggie's Pride — Deborah Wood

SHE WASN'T READY TO SETTLE DOWN.
HE WASN'T WILLING TO LET HER GO.

MAGGIE: Captain of her own steamboat, Maggie loved her rugged life on Oregon's Willamette River. She didn't think she had room in her life for a son ... until she found that her heart was bigger than she'd known.

SAM: Anxious to return to his ranch, Sam planned to find Jeremiah a home as fast as he could ... until he learned that sometimes life has a plan of its own.

A widow by age twenty-seven, Maggie Foster had long stopped hoping to find true happiness. And when Sam Adams showed up one day with Maggie's orphaned nephew, she knew the little boy deserved a better ma than she could ever be. But Sam's tender love soon revealed Maggie's passionate side -- as well as the gentle heart of a true mother...

Hero: Sam Adams
Heroine: Maggie Foster