That being said, this was a nice little book about Felicia who ends up in Frenchman's Bluff, Idaho as a schoolteacher. When her mother died, Felicia and her brother and sister boarded an orphan train from Chicago headed west. The children were split up and Felicia misses her siblings and ends up with a family that doesn't abuse her but doesn't show her love either.
When her "parents" die, Felicia takes up position as a teacher. Her landlord, Colin, who is a widower, was against her taking the position since she is a single female and they had lost 2 teachers to husbands in the past. Colin's daughter, Charity, quickly becomes attached to the teacher and Colin starts to admit that he is starting to have feelings for her.
Unfortunately, the hoity toity matron of the town has Colin picked out for her daughter in law, who is also a widower with 2 children. She starts to do everything she can to make sure that Colin and Felicia are not together regardless of the feelings of her daughter in law.
I did like this book. I was a little disappointed at the end when Felicia had a letter regarding a lead to her sister and was never told what happened with that. And then in the epilogue, she has a letter regarding her brother who apparently ended up back with their drunken absent father. The reason I looked into the "series" was to see if I recognized any of the names as connected to this book, but I couldn't see any. The letters from her former home reminding her that she should return and marry one of the family out of obligation was also a little weird. One letter would have been ok, but two just made it weird. Wasn't a deal-breaker. Overall I'll give it my "Good Book!" ending.
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