Silverpines Series by George H McVey

Antonia (Tonya) Woodson lost everything in the quakes that hit Silverpines. Her father died trying to save miners, The majority of the men women and children who worked in her family’s lumber camp wiped away when the second quake sent the earth sliding into the river with her timber and all. Now six months later she’s done everything she can to survive but with no one to run her sawmill she can’t even provide for herself... moreAntonia (Tonya) Woodson lost everything in the quakes that hit Silverpines. Her father died trying to save miners, The majority of the men women and children who worked in her family’s lumber camp wiped away when the second quake sent the earth sliding into the river with her timber and all. Now six months later she’s done everything she can to survive but with no one to run her sawmill she can’t even provide for herself. In a last effort of desperation, she sends an ad out for a husband who has experience running a mill. Braylon Watts is a dreamer. The only son of a miller, he went to university and got a degree in manufacturing and science. Home now, his father refuses to allow any of the advancements Braylon could make to the family mill. When he sees an advertisement for a woman wanting a husband with milling experience he answers it looking for a fresh start. Can a woman just trying to recover what she lost and survive and a man full of dreams for innovation and bringing new progress to Silverpines ever make a marriage work? What happens when a woman still devastated by the past gets a husband looking to the future? Tonya doesn’t know. All she Wanted was a Miller. What she got was a visionary. Can their marriage last or is it like her life, doomed from the start? less

Carol Brown has given up hope. She’s been widowed for seventeen months and living at Celeste’s House for nine months. No opportunity for the second chance she was told could happen. No fresh start for a woman with another man’s child. Who would want to marry a woman who had an infant anyway? Ian MacGregor has settled in Silverpines. His new job as assistant mine manager keeps him above ground and in less dangerous working conditions... moreCarol Brown has given up hope. She’s been widowed for seventeen months and living at Celeste’s House for nine months. No opportunity for the second chance she was told could happen. No fresh start for a woman with another man’s child. Who would want to marry a woman who had an infant anyway? Ian MacGregor has settled in Silverpines. His new job as assistant mine manager keeps him above ground and in less dangerous working conditions. He’s impressed with Silverpines, it isn’t the typical mining town. No, here he could have the one thing he wants above all else: a family. When his friend Nathan Ryder suggests he write to a home for women needing a fresh start in life, Ian jumps at the chance to find a woman who might have children in need of a father. Carol accepts Ian’s offer to become his wife and the two of them are surprised when the spark of mutual attraction happens between them. But not everyone in Silverpines is as thrilled with their marriage. Will Carol let the careless words of a busybody ruin her chance at true love and a fresh start? Will Ian be able to help Carol see that love is worth fighting for? Or when yet another disaster hits Silverpines, will Ian and Carol lose each other before they can declare their love to one another? All these questions will be answered in Wanted: Family. less