RITA™ Award WinnerCOURTING MISS HATTIE     
Bantam
OCT 1991
ISBN:  0553289446

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They'd shared a lifetime of friendship . . . but it took only one kiss to spark a wildfire of passion in an unlikely bride.

The news spread like brush fire through the whole country when widower Ancil Drayton announced his intention to start courting Miss Hattie Colfax.  She was certainly spirited and delightfully sweet natured, and she'd managed to run her family farm almost single-handedly.  But wasn't a twenty-nine-year-old lady farmer too old to catch a husband?

AN IRRESISTIBLE SUITOR

All his life handsome, black-haired Reed Tyler had worked Miss Hattie's farm--and dreamed of one day settling down on his own piece of land with the pretty young woman he'd sworn to marry.  Hattie was someone he could tell his hopes and troubles to--someone he looked on as a sister.  So he thought, until the idea of Ancil Drayton calling on her made him seethe.  Until the night a brotherly peck became a scorching kiss . . . and Reed knew nothing would bank the blaze--and that his best friend was the only woman he would ever love.

"This is a story that lives in your heart long after it is done . . . Excellent."
--Rendezvous

"A beautiful, sensitive love story laced with humor and tenderness . . . Pamela Morsi is destined to be a star of the '90s." --Romantic Times

Dallas Morning News   "..Simple and sweet though it may be, Ms. Morsi offers a finely drawn picture of rural life of the times.  The no-nonsense Hattie is a delightfully different heroine, at one point deciding that if she is going to marry a man who just wants her farm, he will be the one she loves."