[Enduring Love in Texas 01] • Just a Carpenter

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This is a clean mail order bride story with **15 FREE BONUS STORIES Included!**

Lizzie Simons has lived out on the prairie in Clayton, Texas for all of her life, but when an unexpected pregnancy sends her good-for-nothing husband Willard on a mission to join the vicious band known as the Texas Rangers, Lizzie finds herself alone, pregnant, awaiting the coming blizzard — and Christmas.

Desperate to find a good life for her child, Lizzie turns to the local matchmaker who hatches a plan to marry Lizzie off to a wealthy man in Louisiana, so long as she sells her house to procure a dowry. To sell the home, she’s got to fix it first, and that means she needs a carpenter - fast.

Max Jones is tall, formidable, dashing, quiet, and has mysteriously rolled into town. He offers to fix Lizzie’s home, but ultimately, what he fixes is her **heart**. Will Lizzie dive into the new, wealthy life that is laid out before her, or will Max’s mysterious past, and their unforgettable connection, send her in a direction she never expected? Ultimately, Max Jones might not be just a carpenter after all, and there’s something magical in the air at Christmastime in the Old West.

This is a standalone story with no cliffhangers and a Happy-Ever-After ending. It is also part of the Enduring Love in Texas Series, by Emma Harper.

More books by Emma Harper:

Under the Willow Tree - The second book in the *Enduring Love in Texas* series

The Life She Thought She'd Lead - The first book in the *Foster Farm Files* series

Going West for Love - The first book in the *Mail Order Brides Go West* series