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Sweet Annie

Cheryl St. John · The Copper Creek Brides #1

304 pageshistorical romance
(950)Mild

A man who's always seen past her wheelchair finally risks everything to make his Sweet Annie his bride.

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Annie Sweetwater Wasn't Like Other GirlsAll her life everyone she'd ever known had told her so. Except Luke Carpenter, who never let her limp blind him to seeing her as she really was: a woman grown, full of dreams, desires and hopes for a future—with him!Luke couldn't remember a time when he hadn't loved herTo her family, she was a Dresden doll in a wheelchair. To Luke, she was his Sweet Annie, a woman of surprising gifts, with a heart as open as the wide Western sky. And he'd risk anything to make her his bride!

The Copper Creek Brides series

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