A woman must choose between the life she has known and the charismatic stranger who offers her a world beyond her utopian community in the second novel in Jo Ann Fergusonâs passionate and poignant Haven Trilogy
Riverâs Haven, Indiana, governs its inhabitants by rigidly imposed laws, including some highly unusual ones about marriage and family. Defying the townâand its all-powerful Assembly of EldersâRachel Browning takes in orphaned Katherine Mulligan to raise as her own. But now Rachelâs overprotective brother is pressuring the single mother to marry. Rachelâs ideal husband certainly isnât the brash, seductive stranger she meets when Katherine runs away.
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Wyatt Coltonâs life is like the ever-changing river. The restless rover canât imagine putting down roots in one place, especially not this backwater burg with its tyrannical rules and regulations. Heâll stay in Riverâs Haven just long enough to repair his run-aground steamboat. But whatâs he going to do about the adorable red-haired urchin he finds stowed on his boat? Or her alluring adoptive mother? As taboo desire flames into an affair that sets the people of Riverâs Haven dangerously against Wyatt and Rachel, a man who swore never to give his heart will risk everything for a love that could be the safest haven of all.
Moonlight on Water is the 2nd book in the Haven Trilogy, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.