A Mind of Her Own

Within a year of his return to Beardstown, he had a thriving newspaper, and married Miriam, the girl he had fallen in love with at seventeen, when she was fifteen. She was afraid Victoria might meet someone and fall in love and never want to return to Beardstown. As he looked down at her with a tenderness she didn’t see, his heart was aching for her. Love, O.” Part of her was excited that he had finally surfaced.