TY  - BOOK
AU  - Connealy,Mary
TI  - A model of devotion
T2  - The Lumber Baron's Daughters
SN  - 9798885784368
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Waterville, Maine
PB  - Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
KW  - Women engineers
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Railroad stories
KW  - Marriage
KW  - California
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - United States
KW  - Large print books
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Romance fiction
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Christian fiction
KW  - Novels
N1  - Sequel to: Inventions of the heart
N2  - "She's finally claimed her independence . . . how far will she go to keep it? A brilliant engineer, Jilly Stiles has been educated since childhood to help run her father's lumber dynasty. With the company safe from her stepfather after the marriages of her two sisters, Jilly can now focus on her dream of building a mountaintop railroad--and never marry.Nick Ryder came into Jilly's life when he saved her mother from her no-good stepfather, and he's prepared to protect Jilly from anything that threatens to harm her--as long as he keeps his heart from getting involved.But when a cruel and powerful man goes to dangerous lengths to make Jilly his own, she must make a decision between her safety and her hard-won independence"--
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