Maggie Fletcher has spent her whole life being the daughter nobody worried about, so when she tells her mother she’s joining Josephine Hamilton’s Lantern Library Society and walks out the door with a lantern and a wagon full of books, no one is more surprised than her own family. Her assignment: a farming community on Sparrow Road with a schoolhouse that’s running out of time.
Charlie Harrington came west with a vision to bring education to the frontier. He built it. Then he buried his wife, and the vision became a routine he performs with his eyes closed. Now the county wants to shut his school down, and Charlie is too proud to fight dirty and too tired to fight clean. His last hope is that a wagon full of books from Josephine Hamilton’s Lantern Library Society might be enough to get his students back in their seats. He didn’t count on the quiet woman who comes with them.
Will the books be enough to save the school? And can a woman who’s spent her whole life being overlooked risk walking away from the one man who can’t stop looking at her?
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