She shifted in his arms and put her cheek to his chest. His body was so warm. She loved his strength, and the confidence he had in her.
His love made all things possible.
His love gave her courage, and hope that one day the world would be a better place for all.
“Thank you for making me the sun,” she said, blinking back tears.
“The sun and the stars and all the universe.”
She blinked again and a tear slipped and fell, trickling onto his bare chest. “You lifted me up instead of smashing me down.”
“Ah, sweetheart, I will never let anyone smash you. We need our dreamers and thinkers.”
“And I need you.” She lifted her head and reached up to kiss him. “I need you, Sinclair Douglas, forever.”
“Done.”
Epilogue
McKenna sold the copper mine in the spring of 1890 to a Mr. William Schafer from Reno, Nevada, and then used a significant portion of the proceeds to build the first hospital in Marietta, and the rest to create a fund to help take care of the families that worked in the mine, for as long as the mine was in existence.
McKenna spent the early parts of the summer working with the architect commissioned to draw the plans for the new hospital. The new hospital would be built across the river from the courthouse, with access to the train depot and would be one of the most modern hospitals built in Montana outside Butte.
She continued writing her columns for the Ladies Home Journal, and practiced her cooking, which sadly, was still not a strength.
Fortunately, Sinclair hadn’t married her for her domestic arts and seemed perfectly content with his progressive wife who loved her books, and was currently reading everything McKenna could find on infants and parenting, determined to be prepared for October when the new little Douglas, their Hallowe’en baby, arrived.
Away in Montana, life was very, very good.
No, make that exceptional.
The End
You won’t want to miss the next book in the Paradise Valley Ranch series
Married in Montana
Coming soon – June 2017
Beautiful, spirited, Texas born Ellie Burnett needs a husband. Fast. Her father, rancher Archibald Burnett, is dying, and she’s determined to marry to protect the ranch and preserve her father’s legacy in Montana’s rugged Paradise Valley. The trouble is, she wants to wear the boots in the family and the man she has in mind, Irishman Thomas Sheenan would never stand for that.
Independent and taciturn Thomas Sheenan isn’t looking for a wife, having spent far too much of his life taking care of others. He’s come to Montana to carve out his own identity, and be his own man. The last thing he needs is a headstrong bride, but when Ellie approaches him with the offer of a lifetime, he can’t refuse.
Thomas didn’t anticipate falling for his new bride. He moved to Montana to stake his claim…he never planned on losing his heart.
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Coming soon – Winter 2018
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New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of forty-nine romances and women’s fiction titles, Jane Porter has been a finalist for the prestigious RITA award five times and won in 2014 for Best Novella with her story, Take Me, Cowboy, from Tule Publishing. Today, Jane has over 12 million copies in print, including her wildly successful, Flirting With Forty, picked by Redbook as its Red Hot Summer Read, and reprinted six times in seven weeks before being made into a Lifetime movie starring Heather Locklear. A mother of three sons, Jane holds an MA in Writing from the University of San Francisco and makes her home in sunny San Clemente, CA with her surfer husband and two dogs.
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