Dreaming on Daisies

With a fresh, charming installment in the Love Blossoms in Oregon series, Ferrell (Wishing on Buttercups) returns readers to 1860s Oregon, tackling matters of faith, family, and forgiveness. Leah Carlson is a young woman used to doing a man’s work on her father’s ranch. It’s just been the two of them since the loss of Leah’s mother and the desertion of her younger brother. Taking care of her alcoholic father has left little time for anything else, until fate intervenes in the form of young banker Steven Harding. Steven has spent his life taking care of his mother, only to feel adrift when his long-missing sister is reunited with them and his family is once again complete. While vacillating wildly between overly dramatic and deceptively simplistic, this tender tale reinforces recognition of the necessity of trust and the unbreakable bond of family. Agent: Tamela Hancock Murray, Steve Laube Agency. (Oct.)