Annalise Brentwood has given up on love and marriage Shes the kind of girl young men dont look at twice if a more vivacious girl is nearby On the verge of twentyfour she knows her suitors are only interested in her family name and fathers wealthWhen brash logger Ashton West rolls into Holliston Maine on the spring river drive he takes one look at Annalise and decides shes the one for him little knowing who she isBut itll take a lot more than swagger and charm to win the shy and bookish daughter of the towns leading lumber baronespecially when her father decides to establish a town library and puts his daughter in charge with handsome librarian Edmund Kimball to work alongside her