By Shelby McDonald
From Peg Cochran’s Farmer’s Daughter Series
“Hellooo,” Bert’s voice rang out from the front door.
“In here,” I yelled back from the kitchen where I was stirring some milk in a
pot on the stove waiting for curds to form.
Bert is an old family friend—old in both senses but don’t tell Bert I said that. She’s as thin as a whip and has more energy than someone half her age.
“What’s that you’re cooking,” Bert said, peering into the pot bubbling on the stove.
“I’m making some fresh ricotta. I promised to bring a lasagna to the church potluck tonight.”
Bert put her purse down on a kitchen chair. She was wearing a pair of jeans with an elastic waist and a sweatshirt that said Grandchildren are God’s gift.
“So, how’s your love life,” she said.
I snorted. “You know perfectly well how my love life is.”
Bert faced me with her hands on her hips. “You’re going to have to make a decision one of these days you know. It would be good for Billy to have a father figure around.”
I sighed. Bert viewed herself as some sort of geriatric Cupid. My neighbor Jake, who Bert has termed hot, has made it pretty clear he’d be happy to take me out for a meal, and Bert is viewing that as just this side of a marriage proposal. Matt, who owns the Lovett General Store, also seems to enjoy talking to me when I go in, and Bert thinks that’s a sure sign of his enormous interest in me.
And then there’s Frank.
Frank is my late husband’s brother and looks so much like Bill that it confuses me. I can’t tell whether I might be in love with him or whether I am just confusing him with Bill.
In any case, I’m in no hurry to make any decisions regarding my love life. I’m very happy with my life here on Love Blossom Farm, and I’m managing just fine.
How about you? How is your love life?
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The county fair is the highlight of the year for the small town of Lovett, Michigan—especially for food-and-lifestyle blogger Shelby McDonald, who writes as the Farmer’s Daughter. She’s submitting jams and jellies she’s created from the produce she grows at Love Blossom Farm in hopes of harvesting a blue ribbon.
But the townspeople get more than just the excitement of hayrides, tractor pulls, and cotton candy when Shelby’s neighbor and volunteer fireman, Jake Taylor, extricates the body of Zeke Barnstable instead of a dummy during a demonstration of the Jaws of Life. The fact that Jake and Zeke were known to be at odds plants suspicion in the minds of the police. As evidence against Jake grows, Shelby knows she has to plow through the clues to weed out the true killer and save her friend.
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But the townspeople get more than just the excitement of hayrides, tractor pulls, and cotton candy when Shelby’s neighbor and volunteer fireman, Jake Taylor, extricates the body of Zeke Barnstable instead of a dummy during a demonstration of the Jaws of Life. The fact that Jake and Zeke were known to be at odds plants suspicion in the minds of the police. As evidence against Jake grows, Shelby knows she has to plow through the clues to weed out the true killer and save her friend.
INCLUDES DELICIOUS RECIPES
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I've been married for 30 years now---so I guess my love life is pretty darn good.
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Three to choose from and I am betting on the brother-in-law! And recipes too! Can hardly wait to read it!
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