Clara's Promise — Shirley Hailstock

GOLDEN PROMISE

At fifteen, orphaned Clara Winslow married Wade Cameron -- a man twenty years her senior -- and settled into a life helping to run his farm and care for his two young sons. But now, at twenty-one, Clara feels unfulfilled, and harbors her own secret dreams...dreams that become a reality when she graduates from teaching school.

Fleeing her unhappy marriage, Clara journeys from Virginia to Montana to carve out a new life...on her own terms. There, she meets Luke Evans. A widower struggling to escape his tragic memories, Luke is passionately drawn to the tender-hearted woman who has made a special place for herself in his heart.

It will take courage, desire, and one unusual matchmaker to help Luke and Clara let go of the past and find the strength to risk everything on a rapturous promise of love....