Loving Lila (Thanksgiving Brides Book 1)

Description

Shortly before she prepares to start her third year courses at the University of Iowa, Lila Cleod is called home. She leaves the Sewell family where she also works as a nanny and boards the train for Denver, Colorado. Her father has died. After the funeral, she will learn if he left her, his oldest daughter by his first marriage, anything in his will. She suspects his second wife and her three-year-old half-brother will get the lion’s share of the estate. She is qualified to become a teacher. Will she be able to complete her course of study and receive her full degree?

David Montgomery, having been sent by his father to escort his three younger half-siblings home from a visit to their New York grandparents he does not share, looks forward to returning to his job as his father’s assistant on Littleton, Colorado’s High Line Canal construction project. After reboarding the train in Iowa City, Iowa, his siblings point out a young woman dressed in mourning clothes sitting within the pair of facing benches they formerly occupied. What David notices is the obnoxious, middle-aged drummer leaning over the back of her bench and placing his face too close to her ear. The man’s loud bragging had annoyed David since boarding in Chicago. Deciding to not only reclaim his former seats, but to also hopefully, to rescue the young woman without adding to her discomfort, siblings in hand, David makes a bold move.