The Orphan Train To Kansas (Orphan Trains Out West #2)

Twelve years. Four hundred doorsteps. Lydia Marsh has never kept a single child for herself.

She is the best placement agent the Society has, a spinster by choice, sure of her own eye and proud of her clean record.

Then the orphan train stops in Kansas with one small girl unplaced, and the perfect family Lydia approves turns out to be anything but.

To save Tilly, she breaks every rule she has ever lived by. Now she is ruined in the eyes of a whole county, snowbound in a stranger’s house, and out of options.

Abel Hartley offers her a name and a roof. No promises beyond that. A marriage of convenience, walls plainly fenced, his work and hers.

But winters are long on the prairie, and a sick child has a way of pulling two careful people into the same small circle of lamplight. As the fevers break and the spring comes on, the fence between them starts to fall.

Then the Harmons file their papers, and everything Lydia has risked comes down to a single morning in a county courtroom.

She can read any family in a glance. Can she trust the one she never meant to make?

A sweeping, tender frontier romance of second chances, hard winters, and love that arrives by the longest route home.