A Bride for the Blacksmith Ironhart Brothers of Cedar Hollow Book

Two years of standing right in front of her. One deadline to finally say so.
Ezra Ironhart has loved Sophie Vane from a careful, respectful distance for two years, content to admire her from across the forge and the millinery shop and never risk the friendship by asking for more. But his father’s will won’t allow for two more years of comfortable hesitation — and neither will the man threatening to force Sophie into a marriage that has nothing to do with love and everything to do with her father’s debts.
Sophie has built a life for herself as a milliner, one careful stitch at a time, and she isn’t about to let anyone — least of all a man who sees her only as a debt to be settled — take that away. What she doesn’t expect is that the answer to her sudden, urgent problem has been standing at his forge all along, patiently waiting for her to notice.
When Ezra finally works up the courage to offer Sophie a way out, they’ll discover that a marriage meant to solve one crisis can become the truest partnership either of them has ever known — if they can each let go of the protective silence that’s kept them safe, and honest, for far too long.
Book 2 in The Ironhart Brothers of Cedar Hollow series, following the second Ironhart brother’s journey from careful distance to genuine, hard-won love.