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Debbie Macomber

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A shy librarian answers a Montana rancher's personal ad and becomes an instant wife and mother to three orphaned kids.

Content Warnings
death of loved onegrief

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A shy Louisiana librarian, Mary Warner fears she'll always be alone -- so she answers a personals ad from a rancher in Montana, a guardian of three orphaned children who agrees to marry the mysterious Southern woman sight unseen.

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