Low Down is dirty and greasy, far different from Philadelphia, the dainty rich girl he was supposed to marry. Because he's an honorable man, he agrees to marry her though he's due to wed his fiancee in two weeks.

The men hold a lottery, Max McCord is the winner. When Low Down, or Louise, nurses a group of prospectors back to health after a smallpox epidemic, her one wish for a reward is a baby. But can this strange twist of fate lead to the silver lining that both have been searching for? Read more Yet they agreed to a temporary marriage that could end only in disaster. To be sure, Max McCord was easy on the eyes, but he loved another woman and dreamed of a different life. But when pressed to reveal her heart's wish, she admits, 'I want a baby.' Not a husband, not a forced marriage to the proud man who drew the scratched marble and became honor bound to marry her.

Now meet the most irresistible and independent heroine of them all, a woman called Low Down, who never had anything good happen to her until the day she asked for the one thing that only a man could give her.Īs scruffy and rootless as the other prospectors searching for gold in the Rockies, Low Down wanted nothing in return for nursing a raggedy bunch through the pox. Hailed as “one of the best writers in the business” by Susan Elizabeth Phillips, multi-award-winning author Maggie Osborne delivers hilarious and heartrending tales of resilient women full of grit, pride, and dignity who shine through hard times.

Silver Lining by Maggie Osborne