This is a beautiful love story full of humor and joy! One of my favorites!!
Set in the rugged California frontier, six brothers try to run a ranch, raise two little girls, and make do with what few manners they can remember. Gideon Chance "rescues" a fine young lady after his youngest brother accidentaly knocks her down and subsequently knocks her out, only to find out that she's come all the way from her home in the islands with her missionary parents to help raise her two little nieces ~ his two little nieces!!
If you have the opportunity read the Barbour compilation, "California Chances", it includes this story as well as two other stories about the Chance brothers and the "damsels in distress" that they rescue!

Barbara R. (
Crop4Fun) wrote on 12/20/2008...
Having endured a grueling voyage from the British Islands, Mariam arrives at the Chance brothers' ranch expecting to help her sister care for two children and six men. But Miriam is shocked to learn that her sister has died and her two nieces have been neglected. When the Chance brothers order Miriam to take the next ship back to her home, she digs in her heels. Her place is with her nieces - even if that reduces her chances of marriage to about one in a million. As the months pass, though, will Miriam come to believe that maybe one Chance is all she needs? Fall in love with this inspiring love story and our entire collection of Christian romance novels from Heartsong Presents!