The Mature Mail Order Mother — Susan Leigh Carlton

Widowed and almost forty years old, Sally's chances of finding love again are getting smaller by the day. The only men in her small Virginia hometown are either much older or married. Luke's wife died giving birth to their second child. The horrible things he had seen and done during the war, coupled with the loss of his beloved Becky overwhelmed him. His children needed a mother and he needed a wife. Who would want a forty year old man with a fifteen year old daughter and a five year old son? Lonely, Sally decided she had to take a chance and answered his ad. At their age, what does life have in store for them?