Parting Gifts
Lorraine Heath
A dying widower marries a brothel worker to mother his children — then arranges her future with his brother.
Description
Marrying Maddie, a woman who works in a brothel in order to survive, widower Charles Lawson hopes to provide his three children with a loving mother until his terminal illness causes him to arrange a match between Maddie and his brother. Original.
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