Her Father Forced Her to Marry a Widowed Man in the Mountains — But She Never Expected to Find a Place She Could Truly Call Home

At eighteen, Ellie had never really felt like her life belonged to her.

She lived in a small town where everyone knew everyone else’s business before breakfast and judged it before lunch. Every whispered comment, every sideways glance, every cruel smile seemed to follow her wherever she went. Ellie was shy, gentle, painfully unsure of herself. She’d continue reading …