

And soon neither can deny their growing attraction. Adelaide Proctor is a young woman with her head in the clouds, longing for a real-life storybook hero to claim as her own. When Isabella's uncle comes to claim the child-and her inheritance-Gideon and Adelaide must work together to protect Isabella from the man's evil schemes. Adelaide Proctor is a young woman with her head in the clouds, longing for a real-life storybook hero to claim as her own. He has a ranch to run, a shearing to oversee, and a suspicious fence-cutting to investigate. The unconventionality of the new governess concerns Gideon-and intrigues him at the same time. And five-year-old Isabella hasn't uttered a word since she lost her mother. 'Karen Witemeyers use of descriptive narrative, character-revealing dialogue, and historically accurate elements and details draw the reader in from the first sentence.'-Women Writing the West. When Gideon Westcott left his privileged life in England to make a name for himself in America's wool industry, he never expected to become a father overnight. Adelaide Proctor is a young woman with her head in the clouds. But when a husband-hunting debacle leaves her humiliated, she interviews for a staid governess position on a central Texas sheep ranch and vows to leave her romantic yearnings behind. Adelaide Proctor is a young woman with her head in the clouds, longing for a real-life storybook hero to claim as her own.
