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Courting Eden

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As company commander, Major Jesse Bainbridege sent Corporal Clayborne into battle at the very ending of the war. Now he felt guilt at depriving his widow of the help she so seriously needed.
Suffering from a serious wound in his leg, he tumbled off is horse, Ranger and was lucky enough to meet up with a hill girl, Willa Freeman. She helped him to finally make it to the Clayborne cabin where he collapsed after making the discovery that Mrs. Clayborne was very pregnant.
Eden Clayborne, from Conneticut where she had met and married Alston, had to nurse Jesse through his fever and take care of her bed-ridden mother-in-law. Hannah Clayborne perked up some with the arrival of Jesse.

Because she felt such a strong attraction for this southerner, she was determined to send him on his way. Although it was some weeks before he could leave.

When he arrived home in Georgia, imagine his surprise when he found his fiancee living on his plantation. Because of her, the house had been saved from destruction. She finally confesses that she has fallen truly in love, with a "Yank" noless. Jesse encourages her to go to her love and then his cousin, Cade shows up, he and his horse are half starved and Jesse decides to keep Cade with him.
Yup! they both head back to North Carolina and the hills where the Claybornes live. Jesse is determined to help Eden until the baby is born - wow! both are very sturbborn. Their attraction just keeps growing stronger, causing mother Hannah to wonder.

Mattie Freeman is determined that her son, Darcy should court Eden - she definitely has her eye on the Clayborne property.
Cade is thunderstruck when he meets Willa and Mattie is very unhappy to see these two men helping Eden. Eden is astonished that these two southern gentlemen know how to work a farm - ah, their prejudices were definitely showing. Jesse found it hard to believe that a woman of Eden's education knew how to work.

It took an attack on Eden and Willa by Tom Varden, a nasty hill man, and his beating of Cade to finally convince Eden that she might really need help and protection. Mattie used the attack to accuse Cade of trying to compromise her daughter, Willa. Cade was just turning 16 and Willa was about 13, neither felt ready to think about marriage.

Cade and Jesse were helping to bring mother Hannah out of her depression little by little. And Hannah really took over, with Jesse's help when Eden delivered her daugher, Hannah Rosalind.

Ah, but don't forget the role that the hill woman, Sadie played in their lives. Finally Eden makes an ovature to her parents and tells them about the birth of her baby. They are both estatic and make the trip to North Carolina.
You have to read the conclusion to these characters' lives to find out how Jesse and Eden resolve their differences - where the parents fit in and how love finally triumphs.

will definitely recommend --m Wonderful read - excellently written - great characters.