The Ballad Of Hattie Taylor Av Susan Andersen

<b>A daring young woman pushes back against societal constraints in a feminist, coming-of-age Western romance from <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Susan Andersen.<br></b><br> In the small, bustling town of Mattawa, Oregon, the turn of the century offers a new kind of frontier for women: a vast and exciting range of possibilities--to a point. It''s a time for change, and no one is more eager to embrace new paths than free-spirited outsider Hattie Taylor. If only she could embrace Jake Murdock too. <br> <br> Jake can''t remember a time he was so confused. Hattie is off-limits. The provoking spitfire is under his mother''s protection--<i>his </i>protection--and he has always belonged to another. But now, with the passing of his wife, Jake feels something shift between them. Frustratingly aware of Hattie as a woman, he struggles with new feelings, new questions, new desires.<br> <br> But when a desperate decision born of good intentions turns out to have ugly r