Abiding Love

THE SPINSTER
No one in the sleepy town of Grand Rapids, Ohio, would have ever expected to see shy Irene Barrett tearing up the local barroom. But after joining a women's temperance group the spinster schoolteacher found herself face-to-face with the handsome owner of the Broken Keg Saloon -- and gazing into a pair of gray-blue eyes as intoxicating as the sweetest wine.

THE SPIRIT MERCHANT
A drifter made good, Ross Hollister had no business courting a well-bred lady. Yet the banked fires of passion smoldering beneath Irene's straight-laced demeanor compelled him to make her his own. But first Ross would have to show Irene that nothing -- not the townsfolk's censure or his own sullied past -- could prevent two hearts from sharing an abiding love.