Vermont Valentine

"IN EVERY GENERATION OF TRASKS LIVES ONE MAN BORN TO BE ALONE...."

And Jacob was clearly his generation's representative. Because while his brothers sought their livelihoods -- and loves -- elsewhere, he knew he had to stay where he belonged. Where he was needed. And where eligible women were as rare as an eighty-degree day in January...

And then came a possible danger to his beloved family farm. The bearer of bad news? A petite, gorgeous, non-stop talker named Celie Favreau. And though captivated by Jacob's rugged good looks and piercing blue eyes, she had to stay on track. She'd come to warn of a threat to his trees.

The threat to his heart was merely incidental....