For Love of Melanie

About the Book

Why did she always feel like she didn’t belong in the Lewis household? She was the only one with blonde hair and blue eyes in a family where everyone had dark hair and dark eyes. What kind of life was she going to have on the small farm where her sisters treated her as a household drudge? Here, there was no chance of bettering herself. There must be something better out there.

It all changed the day and elderly couple drove up in the car owned by the hotel in town. Her mother confirmed the fact that Melanie was not really her daughter, but belonged to a girl named Letty who worked from them and had died in childbirth. Mr. and Mrs. Jessup whisked her off to the Rolling J Ranch in the wilds of Montana. She was introduced to the loving family she had never known, and to the ranch life by the foreman, Luke Harding. He supervised her riding and taught her the ranch boundaries while falling hopelessly in love with her.

He discounted any hope of ever claiming her as his own until her grandparents gave cupid a hand by installing Luke in a log cabin of his own and encouraging him to speak up if she was what he wanted. An invitation to the Lewis family had them traveling out for the wedding that cemented the families in their love for Melanie.

About the Author

Gen Carter is a new author with nine novels to her credit. She has always been a compulsive reader and gained her first look into the world beyond by reading her father’s Western Novels and her mother’s Romance Magazines while herding cattle and sheep on the North Dakota prairie. Her works, built around that foundation, are structured by her life experiences that were shared by eleven siblings, a loving husband and her own eight children. She brings a comfortable straightforward look at the personal relationships upon which we all thrive.