But when he hears she’s stepping out with Ancil Drayton, he starts to see her in a new light. Five years younger than she is, Reed thinks of Hattie as combination of older sister and boss. She also decides that if she marries Ancil, she’ll sell the farm to Reed Tyler, her hired man who’s worked on it for all his life. But Hattie fears she’ll never have a family of her own, so she agrees that he can court her. Hattie has been single for so long that no one imagines she’s interested in a husband, and Ancil is prompted by his seven kids’ need for a mother rather than any desire for her. Hattie Colfax, a spinster aged twenty-nine who owns her own farm, discovers that the recently widowed Ancil Drayton has asked their preacher whether it would be appropriate to court her. Courting Miss Hattie, set in Arkansas in the early 1900s, was no exception when it came to the warm fuzzies, but something in the execution proved lacking. Pamela Morsi’s Americana romances always give me a cozy feeling when I pick them up, as if I’m about to wrap a quilt around myself and sip hot chocolate.
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