Stealing Home (The Sweet Magnolias #1)

by Sherryl Woods

You love the man or you don’t.” “Not that simple,” Maddie said. “Yes, it is,” her mother said just as firmly.

“Have the two of you talked?” “All the time,” her mother said. “But about him asking you to marry him? No, we haven’t talked about that.” “Then what makes you so sure he’s going to ask?” “The way he looks at you. It’s the way your dad looked at me.”

“Then why on earth does anyone ever get married?” Maddie asked in frustration. “With all those odds stacked against you, why bother?” “Are you asking in general, or are you talking about you and Cal?” Maddie frowned. “Both, I guess.” “Some people are just optimists,” Helen told her. “Or maybe there’s something about love that can make you forget all the odds and statistics and pain. It’s that same kind of amnesia that allows women to have more than one baby after they discover that childbirth’s no picnic. Love is powerful enough to convince you that this time will be different.”