Annalise Brentwood has given up on love and marriage. She's the kind of girl young men don't look at twice if a more vivacious girl is nearby. On the verge of twenty-four, she knows her suitors are only interested in her family name and father's wealth.When brash logger Ashton West rolls into Holliston, Maine on the spring river drive, he takes one look at Annalise and decides she's the one for him, little knowing who she is.But it'll take a lot more than swagger and charm to win the shy and bookish daughter of the town's leading lumber baron-especially when her father decides to establish a town library and puts his daughter in charge, with handsome librarian Edmund Kimball to work alongside her.
