After fulfilling a pledge to a dying friend, Zacharias Hamilton is finally free. No family entanglements. No disappointing those around him. Just the quiet bachelor existence he’s always craved. Until fate snatches his freedom away when the baker of his favorite breakfast bun is railroaded by the city council. Despite not wanting to get involved, he can’t turn a blind eye to her predicament . . . or her adorable dimples.
Abigail Kemp needs a man’s name on her bakery’s deed. A marriage of convenience seems the best solution . . . if it involves a man she can control. That person definitely isn’t the stoic lumberman who oozes silent confidence whenever he enters her shop. Control Zacharias Hamilton? She can’t even control her pulse when she’s around him.
When vows are spoken, Abigail’s troubles should be over. Yet threats to the bakery worsen, and darker dangers hound her sister. Can she put ever more trust in Zach without losing her dreams of independence?
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Summary
" . . . . I have to choose which voices to believe. I can believe the ones that tell me I'm not good enough or brave enough or pretty enough . . . . . or I can push aside that clamor and see out the voice that tells me I am fearfully and wonderfully made."
Abigail Kemp has been listening to the wrong voices most of her life, struggling with her self-esteem on almost a daily basis; but there's one area where even she can admit excellence; her baking ability is second to none in the little town of Honey Grove, Texas. Now some silly city ordinance is threatening to topple Abby's future.
Zacharias Hamilton is enjoying his life of freedom; his siblings are well settled, he likes working as a lumberman in Honey Grove, and he particularly likes starting each day with a cup of black coffee and two sticky buns from the "Taste of Heaven Bakery". Never in his wildest dreams did he expect to be propositioned by the lovely baker with an offer he could easily refuse; or could he?
This clever, and most romantic, marriage of convenience tale should have a list of life lessons tucked into its back pages, because Abby and Zach learn so much about what marriage is and what it isn't, that it's hard to believe they weren't meant for each other all along. There's far "more than words can say" about life, love, and lists of expectations in this lovely new story by Karen Witemeyer.