1894 – Washington
Second chances aren’t offered to girls who elope…or boys who squander family wealth. But for Elior Monaghan and Jeremiah Crockett, something better than a second chance is rising over the mountains: A Light with the power to redeem.
Single-mother Elior Monaghan loves her son, the brothers she’s reunited with, and, only slightly less so, typing on her Munson typewriter. She hates secrets and men who keep them (and mice.) Jeremiah Crockett, her brothers’ right-hand man at Monaghan Lumber, is keeping secrets, which is unforgiveable (even if he did rescue her from a mouse).
Jeremiah Crockett loves Elior, her indomitable spirit, and the whimsy and zeal with which she approaches life. He hates the impulsive business decision of his past that exiled him from family. Leaning on his patience and perseverance, Jeremiah sets out to woo the woman who avoids him, using an unconventional method that seems brilliant at first but soon feels like another reckless mistake.
Elior, digging her heels into responsibility and reason, is determined to ignore Jeremiah and the feelings he stirs in her. But it’s hard to ignore a man who hires her to type letters to a mystery woman, and even harder to ignore how those letters show her a different Jeremiah than Elior expected to see.