Sweet Annie's Pass — Marilyn Pappano

ALL ALONE...

Josiah Miller had once found happiness carrying out his ancestors' legacy--farming the rocky Arkansas Ozark soil and raising a family. Now, his marriage over and debt piling up, Josiah spent his lonely days cloaked in sorrow, pining for the child he'd lost, for the love he'd never really had.

Historian Annabeth Gibbs might have come to Dutchman's Valley on a research grant, but she had a secret tie to this rugged corner of the world. All her life she'd waited to return and uncover her past, and nobody was going to drive her away--not even stubborn reclusive Josiah Miller.

Suddenly they were in a war of wills. And the loser might lose more than stubborn pride -- he just might lose his heart ....