BARCLAY, Bachelors & Babies Book 4
No bachelor could be prepared for what happens to the Givens brothers one stormy night in 1876. Finding a pregnant woman on their road, they take her in. Before they can learn anything about her, she gives birth to triplets and disappears. Luckily, the doctor supplies a much-needed wet-nurse— Cynara, a recent widow who lost her baby. Her sad eyes and gentle acceptance awaken something in Barclay’s staid soul. But she’s not ready for a new man in her life. She’ll stay at the ranch and tend the babies, but that’s all.
Meanwhile, where is the babies’ real mother? Who and where is the father? And what will become of these helpless infants?
Excerpt:
Barclay peeked into the great room.
The woman, a few years younger than himself, had reddish hair drawn up on her head in loose curls. As she watched the baby suckle, her face held a softness, a reverence that socked him in the gut. She was beautiful. She and the infant together were about the most stunning thing he’d ever seen.
“So beautiful,” she whispered and stroked the baby’s head.
A tear trailed down her face and her mouth quivered. Barclay had to ignore the impulse to rush in and ask why. The memory of what Doc had told him about her losing her husband and then her baby hit him then. How tragic to have to nurse someone else’s child after losing her own. It made his heart ache.
