Moonstone Promise
by Elizabeth Ellen Carter
After her husband’s death, Pennsylvania widow Ann Sellars forges a business partnership with Toby Jackson that quickly becomes a close friendship. But when Toby proposes marriage on the eve of leaving for England, the pain of her husband’s passing is still too raw and Ann refuses. Eighteen months later, Toby is returning. Can Ann bid goodbye to the past and love again?Set in Pennsylvania in 1791, Moonstone Promise is a short story featuring the character Toby Jackson from the first Moonstone Romance novel, Moonstone Obsession. Told from the viewpoint of Ann Sellars, the tale reveals the back story to Jackson's association with James Penventon, and explores the sensitive topic of moving on after the death of a loved one.