Two Novelettes and a Novella are included in this wonderful set of tales. In Abbot's Farm, Marantha Talley's husband is killed in the War Between the States. She's carrying his child with no prospects for a husband, until the local minister and Maddie's mother set her up with a farmer with three young children. Maddie doesn't want to marry him, but what choice does she have? She must make peace with her future if...